LAW STUDENTS CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH COUNCIL v. WADMOND

Nos. 68 Civ. 2917; 68 Civ. 2938.

291 F.Supp. 772 (1968)

LAW STUDENTS CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH COUNCIL INC., Toby B. Golick, James C. Mauro, Jr. and William H. B. Rodarmor on behalf of themselves and all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Lowell WADMOND, Felix A. Muldoon, Edwin L. Weisl, Mark F. Hughes, Bruce Bromley, Monroe Goldwater, Arthur H. Schwartz, Bernard Teencher, Thomas B. Dyett and Alfred A. Giardino as chairman and members of the Appellate Division First Department Committee on Character and Fitness of Applicants for Admission to the Bar, Defendants. Stephen Martin WEXLER, H. Gabriel Kaimowitz, the Columbia Law Students Guild, New York City Chapter of National Lawyers Guild, Plaintiffs, v. The SUPREME COURT OF the STATE OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT; the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department; the Committee on Character and Fitness, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department; the Committee on Character and Fitness, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

September 25, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Levy, Gutman & Goldberg, by Jeremiah S. Gutman, New York City, Alan H. Levine, New York City, Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., State of New York, for defendants. Daniel M. Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel.


MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER FOR THREE JUDGE COURT

MOTLEY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in these two actions attack the constitutionality of certain New York statutes, rules and regulations relating to the character and fitness of those seeking admission to the New York bar. More specifically, plaintiffs claim, inter alia, that rights guaranteed them by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution are being violated by defendants' enforcement...

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