POATS v. GIVAN

No. 80-2030.

651 F.2d 495 (1981)

Greyling Byron POATS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Richard M. GIVAN, Chief Justice, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greyling Byron Poats, pro se.

Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen. of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before SPRECHER, WOOD and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

We hold that the Indiana Supreme Court rule limiting the number of bar examinations which an applicant may take to four is constitutional.

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The plaintiff is a law school graduate1 who has failed the Indiana bar examination on four different occasions.2 He brought this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(3) against the justices...

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