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HUFFMAN v. MONTANA SUPREME COURT

Civ. No. 2208.

372 F.Supp. 1175 (1974)

James L. HUFFMAN, Plaintiff, v. MONTANA SUPREME COURT and James Harrison, Individually and as Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Montana, Helena Division.

March 8, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Goetz, Bozeman, Mont., for plaintiff.

Robert L. Woodahl, Atty. Gen., J. C. Weingartner, Charles Ed Laws, Deputy Attys. Gen., Helena, Mont., for defendants.

Before KILKENNY, Circuit Judge, EAST, Senior District Judge, and BATTIN, District Judge.

OPINION AND ORDER

BATTIN, District Judge:

This case presents a novel question to the federal courts as to the constraints imposed by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment on the criteria a State may adopt for admission to the bar. The plaintiff, James L. Huffman, is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and a resident of the State of Montana. On July 14, 1972, he filed a petition for admission on motion to the Montana bar with...

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