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SHENFIELD v. PRATHER

No. EC 73-20-K.

387 F.Supp. 676 (1974)

Mark Harold SHENFIELD et al., Plaintiffs, v. The Honorable Lenore PRATHER, Chancellor, Fourteenth Chancery Court District, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, E. D.

December 20, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Shenfield, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Ed Davis Noble, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

Before COLEMAN, Circuit Judge, and KEADY and SMITH, District Judges.

KEADY, District Judge:

This class action was brought by eight recent graduates of accredited law schools who are required by § 73-3-9, Miss.Code Ann. (1972),1 to take and pass a bar examination prior to admission to the practice of law in Mississippi. Joining the chancery court judges of Mississippi as class defendants, plaintiffs challenge as unconstitutional the state's bar admissions plan, which requires a bar examination for all...

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