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PETTIT v. GINERICH

No. 77-1599.

582 F.2d 869 (1978)

Alvin Dwight PETTIT, Maudine Rice Cooper, Charles B. Marshall, Jr., William H. Proctor, Ernest W. McIntosh, Jr., Jesse S. Waker and Bernard Bettis, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Appellants, v. Vincent L. GINERICH, Chairman, Charles H. Dorsey, Member and Dorothy H. Thompson, Member, all constituting the Maryland State Board of Law Examiners, Court of Appeals Building, Rowe Boulevard, Annapolis, Maryland, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 18, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Proctor, York, Pa. (James L. Foster, Baltimore, Md., Harris & Proctor, York, Pa., on brief), for appellants.

Steven P. Resnick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md. (Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen., of Maryland, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellees.

Before RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

This action, brought on behalf of seven black plaintiffs, and the members of the class whom they seek to represent, alleges that they are being, and have been, deprived of rights, privileges and immunities secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the United States, because they have failed the Bar Examination and been denied admission to practice law. After extensive discovery, the District Court allowed class certification, and upon defendants...

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