HOLLAR v. GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

No. 87-3487.

857 F.2d 163 (1988)

Brenda J. HOLLAR, Stedman Hodge, Charlotte L. Poole-Davis, and Clarice A. Bryan, Appellants, v. GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, Virgin Islands Bar Association and District Court of the Virgin Islands.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 12, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brenda J. Hollar (argued), Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for appellants.

James S. Carroll, III (argued), Office of U.S. Atty., Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for appellee the District Court of the Virgin Islands.

Warren B. Cole (argued), Richard H. Hunter, Isherwood, Hunter and Colianni, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, for appellee the Virgin Islands Bar Assn.

Susan Rhodes (argued), Victor G. Schneider, Dept. of Justice, Government of the Virgin Islands, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for appellee the Government of the Virgin Islands.

Before SEITZ, SLOVITER and BECKER, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Circuit Judge.

I. FACTS AND JURISDICTION

In 1956, in response to a petition of the Virgin Islands Bar Association ("VIBA"), the District Court of the Virgin Islands ordered integration of the bar. Rule 51 of the District Court of the Virgin Islands provides in part that VIBA "shall be an integrated bar association [and] [n]o attorney may practice law in the Virgin Islands who is not an active or government member of...

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