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WHITFIELD v. ILLINOIS BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS

No. 73-2085.

504 F.2d 474 (1974)

LeRoy WHITFIELD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ILLINOIS BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS et al., Defendants, Len Young Smith, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 18, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LeRoy Whitfield, pro se.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., and Herbert L. Caplan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before PELL and STEVENS, Circuit Judges, and LARAMORE, Senior Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff, LeRoy Whitfield, is a law school graduate who, after failing the Illinois Bar Examination five times, brought a civil rights action1 against the Board of Law Examiners and its individual members.2 He alleged that: 1) the bar examination is unconstitutional because it has no rational connection with an applicant's fitness or capacity to practice...

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