Legal Opinion
James Kevin CRAIG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 17, 1998No. 96-55396PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff James Craig passed the July 1988 California bar examination. He asked the Committee of Bar Examiners (“Committee”) to allow him to take an amended oath because the provision of the oath requiring support of the state and federal constitutions conflicts with his religious beliefs. As a “Christian pacifist and philosophical anarchist,” Craig views oaths as sacred commitments that must be taken only as acts of religious worship. He also believes swearing to support the state and federal constitutions would commit him to support institutionalized violence by the Government, contrary to…
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