Legal Opinion
Ex parte Urrutia Martorell
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Decided March 7, 1932No. Nos. 66 and 33APublished
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hutchison
A number of practicing lawyers and the Puerto Eican Bar Association object to the enrollment of these two candidates for examination, and challenge the constitutionality of two joint resolutions, numbers 58 and 69, Session Laws of 1931, pp. 1014, 1050.
The pertinent portion of Resolution number 58, reads as follows:
“Eduardo Urrutia Martorell is hereby authorized to take examination before the Supreme Court of Porto Rico for admission to the bar, and the said Supreme Court to grant him said examination on •the day and hour that it shall determine, at the request of the interested party,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Brydonjack v. State BarCalifornia Supreme Court · 1929
- Olmsted's CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1928
- Crummey v. PoppCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1926