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STRAUSS v. ALABAMA STATE BAR

Civ. A. No. CV 81-G-1041-S.

520 F.Supp. 173 (1981)

Berney L. STRAUSS, Plaintiff, v. ALABAMA STATE BAR; Edward P. Turner, Jr.; P. Richard Hartley; Harry W. Gamble, Jr.; Charles R. Adair; Walter P. Crownover; H. Wayne Love; William D. Scruggs, Jr.; Warren B. Lightfoot; A. Stewart O'Bannon, Jr.; Joe C. Cassady; Ben H. Harris, Jr.; Joel P. Robinson, Jr.; Albert W. Copeland; Ludger D. Martin; Richard S. Manley; Jere C. Segrest; Broox G. Garrett; W. O. Kirk, Jr.; Nelson Vinson; Bob Faulk; Louis B. Lusk; J. Don Foster; T. Reuben Bell; John David Knight; Edwin C. Page, Jr.; Robert M. Harper; John F. Proctor; William Bruce Sherrill; Harold Albritton; Oliver P. Head; J. Gorman Houston, Jr.; Gary C. Huckaby; Gorman R. Jones, Jr.; William B. Matthews; A. Philip Reich, III; Charles E. Robinson; Robert Straub; H. Neil Taylor, Sr.; and Ted Taylor, in their official capacity as members of the Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar; E. T. Brown, Jr., President of the Alabama State Bar; Harold V. Hughston, President-Elect of the Alabama State Bar; Jon H. Moores, Vice-President of the Alabama State Bar; and Reginald T. Hamner, Secretary of the Alabama State Bar, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Alabama, S. D.

August 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gould H. K. Blair, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiff.

William H. Morrow, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GUIN, District Judge.

This cause came before the court upon the verified complaint filed by the plaintiff in which he sought a preliminary injunction requiring the Alabama State Bar Association to allow him to take the July 1981 bar examination. He further requested a declaration that the residence requirement for taking the bar examination is unconstitutional, and a permanent injunction preventing the defendants from enforcing that provision...

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