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WOODARD v. VIRGINIA BD. OF BAR EXAMINERS

No. 78-1586.

598 F.2d 1345 (1979)

Jesse Lincoln WOODARD, Appellant, v. VIRGINIA BOARD OF BAR EXAMINERS, W. Scott Street, III, individually and in his official capacity as Secretary and Treasurer of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, J. Sloan Kuykendall, William H. King, John L. Walker, Carl C. Gillespie, Francis N. Crenshaw, individually and in their official capacities as members of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 24, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Edward Thompson, Washington, D. C. (James A. Winstead, Chesapeake, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Walter H. Ryland, Deputy Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, Stuart H. Dunn, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Leonard L. Hopkins, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation, and RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellant Woodard applied for admission to the Virginia Bar and sat for the bar examination. He failed to achieve a passing score on the examination and his application for admission to the bar was therefore denied. After filing discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and being issued a "Right to Sue" letter, he brought this suit as a class action in district court alleging violations of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e...

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