Legal Opinion
Noll v. Alaska Bar Ass'n
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided August 13, 1982No. 5782PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MATTHEWS, Justice.
This appeal involves the constitutionality of Alaska Bar Rule 5(l)(a) which requires that an applicant for admission to the state bar be domiciled in Alaska. 1 Jonathan Noll, who resides in Seattle and is a member of the bar in both Washington and New Jersey, applied for admission to the Alaska Bar Association (ABA) after passing the 1980 summer bar examination for attorney applicants. Although acknowledging that Noll was otherwise qualified, the Board of Governors of the ABA denied him admission solely because he failed to meet the domicile requirement imposed by Bar…
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