Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Grubbs
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided March 3, 1989No. 86-1076PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING
Norman Jackson Grubbs filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to the Alabama State Bar Association ("State Bar") requiring the State Bar to show cause why it should not certify Grubbs as a member of the State Bar. The petition was denied by this Court without opinion, 542 So.2d 346, on November 14, 1988, and Grubbs filed this application for rehearing.
Grubbs seeks the remedy of admission to the State Bar without the requirement of passing the Alabama State Bar Examination because he was allegedly denied his constitutional right of equal protection under the…
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