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SOMMERMEYER v. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WYO.

No. 87-1811.

871 F.2d 111 (1989)

Mayo SOMMERMEYER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WYOMING, Richard V. Thomas, Chief, C. Stuart Brown, G. Joseph Cardine, Walter C. Urbigkit, Jr., Richard J. Macy, Justices of the Supreme Court, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 1, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent N. Campbell (William A. Swainson, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with him on the briefs) of Anderson, Sommermeyer, Wick & Dow, Fort Collins, Colo., for plaintiff-appellant.

Peter J. Mulvaney (Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., State of Wyo., with him on the brief), Deputy Atty. Gen., State of Wyo., for defendants-appellees.

John E. Masters and Robert T. McCue of Dray, Madison & Thompson, P.C., Cheyenne, Wyo., on the brief for the Wyoming State Bar, amicus curiae.

Before TACHA, and SETH, Circuit Judges, and SAFFELS, District Judge.

TACHA, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court upholding the rules of the Wyoming Supreme Court which required that an attorney be a resident of the State of Wyoming in order to be eligible for admission to the bar on motion instead of by taking a bar examination, 659 F.Supp. 207 (1987). Plaintiff Sommermeyer challenges the residency requirement on the grounds that it violates the privileges and immunities...

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