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PETTIT v. GINGERICH

Civ. No. B-72-964.

427 F.Supp. 282 (1977)

Alvin Dwight PETTIT et al. v. Vincent L. GINGERICH, Chairman et al.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

February 22, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth L. Johnson and Alvin Dwight Pettit, Baltimore, Md., and Jack Greenberg and Linda Greene, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen., and George A. Nilson, Deputy Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for defendants.

BLAIR, District Judge.

The general question presented by this suit is whether the Maryland Bar examination is color-blind. The specific question presented is whether the seven black plaintiffs and the members of the class whom they seek to represent are being and have been deprived of any rights, privileges and immunities secured by the Constitution and laws of the United States because they have failed the Bar examination and been denied admission to practice law...

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