Arlene Nordgren v. Jerome Hafter

In this appeal the Court is presented with a constitutional challenge involving as its central theme the Mississippi Bar admissions requirement that applicants for the Mississippi bar examination be graduates of American Bar Association accredited law schools absent certain statutory exceptions. We find that the district court, 616 F.Supp. 742, properly granted summary judgment in favor of appellees as to appellant’s claims, and we affirm.

I

In the fall of 1983, the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions (the Board) denied appellant Arlene Nordgren’s bar exam application because she had graduated…