IN RE ANASTAPLO

No. 58.

366 U.S. 82 (1961)

IN RE ANASTAPLO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 24, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Petitioner argued the cause and filed a brief pro se.

William C. Wines, Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, argued the cause for the State of Illinois, respondent. With him on the brief were William L. Guild, Attorney General, and Raymond S. Sarnow and A. Zola Groves, Assistant Attorneys General.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Roscoe T. Steffen for the American Civil Liberties Union and by David Scribner, Leonard B. Boudin, Ben Margolis, William B. Murrish and Charles Stewart for the National Lawyers Guild.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

The questions presented by this case are similar to those involved in No. 28, Konigsberg v. State Bar of California, decided today, ante, p. 36.

In 1954 petitioner, George Anastaplo, an instructor and research assistant at the University of Chicago, having previously passed his Illinois bar examinations, was denied admission to the bar of that State by the Illinois Supreme Court.

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