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DONNELLY v. BOSTON COLLEGE

No. 77-1084.

558 F.2d 634 (1977)

William L. DONNELLY, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. BOSTON COLLEGE et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 18, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Donnelly pro se.

John M. Harrington, Jr., George Marshall Moriarty, John H. Mason and Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., on brief for Harvard University et al.

Philip Burling, Scott C. Moriearty, Richard W. Benka, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, and Henry Paul Monaghan, Boston, Mass., on briefs for Suffolk University and Boston College et al.

Harold Hestnes, William H. Baker and Hale & Dorr, Boston, Mass., on brief for Boston University et al.

Robert D. City and Moulton & Looney, Boston, Mass., on brief for New England School of Law.

Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., and Terry Jean Seligmann, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief for the Honorable G. Joseph Tauro and his successor, the Honorable Edward F. Hennessey.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge, and DOOLING, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff William L. Donnelly instituted this action to obtain relief from five Boston law schools for their allegedly unlawful refusal to grant him admission to study law and from the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for his alleged enforcement against plaintiff of Supreme Court Rule 3:01, which requires applicants for admission to the Massachusetts bar to have graduated from a qualified law school. The district court dismissed...

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