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BROWN v. SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIA

Civ. A. Nos. 700-71-R, 43-72-R.

359 F.Supp. 549 (1973)

Allison W. BROWN, Jr., Plaintiff, v. SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIA et al., Defendants. Roger W. TITUS, Plaintiff, v. SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

June 5, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allison W. Brown, Jr., pro se (Robert M. Alexander, Arlington, Va., and David Carliner, Washington, D. C., on brief).

Stuart H. Dunn, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Va. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., of Va., Richmond, Va., on brief), for defendants.

Francis C. Lee, Richmond, Va. (McCaul, Grigsby & Pearsall, Richmond, Va., on brief), for intervenor Virginia State Bar.

Roger W. Titus, pro se (Philip J. Hirschkop, Alexandria, Va., William W. Greenhalgh, Rockville, Md., and Leonard J. Keilp, Arlington, Va., on brief, for plaintiff).

Robert P. Dwoskin, Charlottesville, Va., and Herbert A. Rosenthal, Jr., Washington, D. C., on brief, for American Civil Liberties Union, intervenor.

Before BRYAN, Circuit Judge, and HOFFMAN and MERHIGE, District Judges, in No. 43-72-R.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge, in No. 43-72-R.

PER CURIAM in No. 700-71-R.

These cases involve an area of state-federal relations; namely, the right of a state to establish and administer standards for admission to the bar — a field into which the federal court should be especially reluctant and slow to enter, but one in which there is a duty to investigate in appropriate cases. Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners, 353 U.S. 232

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