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HARPER v. DIST. OF COLUMBIA COMMITTEE ON AD.

Nos. 8102, 8433.

375 A.2d 25 (1977)

Thomas C. HARPER and Gary Williams et al., Petitioners, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS et al., Respondents.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 2, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorsey E. Lane, Washington, D. C., for petitioners Gary Williams et al.

Douglas J. Pride, Youngstown, Ohio, entered an appearance as petitioner pro se.

Thomas C. Harper, petitioner, pro se.

David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Louis P. Robbins, Principal Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the pleadings for respondents.

Before KERN and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges, and PAIR, Associate Judge, Retired.

KERN, Associate Judge:

We are confronted with two petitions1 challenging the procedures for admission to the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. All petitioners are black graduates of accredited law schools who have failed the District of Columbia Bar examination and hence have been denied membership in the Bar.

Petitioner Williams and the others named in his petition now...

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