Legal Opinion
Hollar v. Government of the Virgin Islands
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 12, 1988No. 87-3487PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SEITZ, Circuit Judge.
I. FACTS AND JURISDICTION
In 1956, in response to a petition of the Virgin Islands Bar Association (“VIBA”), the District Court of the Virgin Islands ordered integration of the bar. Rule 51 of the District Court of the Virgin Islands provides in part that VIBA “shall be an integrated bar association [and] [n]o attorney may practice law in the Virgin Islands who is not an active or government member of the Virgin Islands Bar Association-” V.I. Code Ann. tit. V App. V R. 51.
Appellants (“the Hollar group”), four members of the Virgin Islands bar, brought…
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