Legal Opinion
Robinson's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 7, 1881PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The question presented by this petition, and by the report on which it has been reserved for our determination, is whether, under the laws of the Commonwealth, an unmarried woman is entitled to be examined for admission as an attorney and counsellor of this court.
This being the first application of the kind in Massachusetts, the court, desirous that it should be fully argued, informed the executive committee of the Bar Association of the city of Boston of the application, and has received elaborate briefs from the petitioner in support of her petition, and from two gentlemen of the bar as…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Ex Parte RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
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- Bradwell v. StateSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
- Ex Parte BradleySupreme Court of the United States · 1869
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- State v. FairlambSupreme Court of Missouri · 1894
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