9th, 10th Circuits have come to the same conclusion Supreme Court last year declined to take up the issue (Reuters) - The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday became the latest court to conclude that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring unions from charging nonmembers fees did not overrule an earlier high court decision allowing states to require lawyers to pay bar association dues. A three-judge 6th Circuit panel in a case brought by Michigan lawyer Lucille Taylor said the Supreme Court's 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME may have undermined the reasoning behind a 1990 decision in Keller v. State Bar of California, but that Keller is still good law because the justices did not expressly overturn it.