Case ID: so2d_346/html/1104-01.html
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Author: {"author": "SANDERS, C. J., TATE, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re APPLICATION of Roberto R. ALEMAN, Jr.
    No. 59955.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    June 8, 1977.
   In re: Roberto R. Aleman, Jr., applying for permission to take the bar examination.

Considering that applicant is not requesting admission to the Louisiana bar but merely the opportunity to take the bar examination and test his knowledge of La. law, this, application, is denied.

SANDERS, C. J.,

concurs in the denial of the application on. the ground applicant is not a resident alien as required by Article XIV, §. 7(B)(c) of the Articles of Incorporation of State Bar.

SUMMERS, J., concurs, in the denial for the reasons stated by the Chief Justice.

TATE, J.,

dissents. As in In re de Alba, 312 So.2d 867 (La., 1975), I see no good reason why the present applicant should not be permitted to take the bar examination for which he prepared by a course of studies at a Louisiana law school. Formerly I was of the opinion that by the amendment of our rules we intended to permit aliens who were residing in Louisiana to take our bar examination, if otherwise qualified (assuming that the issue of eligibility for admission to the bar is before us — in fact, the only issue before us is whether the applicant should be permitted to take the bar examination) by'our rules.

DIXON, J., concurs in the denial.

MARCUS, J., concurs in the denial.