Ktsanes v. Underwood

OPINION AND ORDER

PELL, Circuit Judge.

This action for injunctive and declaratory relief, invoking our jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3), to enforce the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenges the constitutional validity of Rule 705(d) of the Supreme Court of Illinois. Rule 705 (Ill.Rev.Stat. 1975, ch. 110A, §. 705) provides that an attorney who has resided and practiced law in another state for five years may, upon passing a character and fitness test, be admitted to the bar of Illinois. Paragraph (d) of Rule 705 provides:

An applicant who has taken and failed to pass the bar examination…