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WATKINS v. MISSISSIPPI BD. OF BAR ADMISSIONS

No. 92-CA-01229-SCT.

659 So.2d 561 (1995)

Djuna WATKINS, Regina Irvin and ReJohnna Mitchell v. MISSISSIPPI BOARD OF BAR ADMISSIONS. MISSISSIPPI BOARD OF BAR ADMISSIONS v. Lynda TILLIS and Josie Mayfield.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

As Corrected August 3, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry W. Howard, Chokwe Lumumba, Jackson, for appellants.

Michael C. Moore, Atty. Gen., James F. Steel, Deputy Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and BANKS and JAMES L. ROBERTS, Jr., JJ.

BANKS, Justice, for the Court:

This case arises because the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions (Board) seized upon a vacuum in its rules, abandoned a long held policy and leaped into a quagmire. The applicants now before the Court claim that the decisions of the Board were motivated by race or had a disparate racial impact or were no more justified than other twists of the rules which would benefit them, and were, thus, arbitrary and capricious. After careful examination...

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