In re Admin. Order 2017-05-17

By the Court:

Before this court is a motion from the Little Tokyo Historical Society and the Japanese American Bar Association seeking admission to the State Bar of California for Sei Fujii, a Californian who died in 1954. Fujii was born in Japan and immigrated to the United States in 1903. Eight years later, he graduated with a law degree from the University of Southern California. The materials before us contain no indication that Fujii took or passed a bar exam or that he applied for admission to the California bar. But such acts by Fujii would have been futile in light of our decision in…