THE FLORIDA BAR

No. 72240.

532 So.2d 669 (1988)

THE FLORIDA BAR. In re Virgil Darnell HAWKINS.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harley Scott Herman, Leesburg, for petitioner.

Rutledge R. Liles, President, Jacksonville, Stephen N. Zack, President-elect, Miami, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Tallahassee, for The Florida Bar, respondent.


PER CURIAM.

Harley Scott Herman, an attorney, files this petition which seeks posthumously to reinstate Virgil Darnell Hawkins to The Florida Bar. We have jurisdiction under article V, section 15, Florida Constitution.

In 1949, Virgil Hawkins, a forty-one-year-old black man, was denied admission to the University of Florida Law School because of his race. He filed suit, but the Florida Supreme Court refused to admit him on the premise that a "separate but...

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