Case Name: In the Matter of Anonymous, Appellant, for Admission to Practice as an Attorney. Committee on Character and Fitness of the Second Judicial Department, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1961-06-09
Citations: 10 N.Y.2d 740
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Anonymous, Appellant, for Admission to Practice as an Attorney. Committee on Character and Fitness of the Second Judicial Department, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 740–741

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Anonymous, Appellant, for Admission to Practice as an Attorney. Committee on Character and Fitness of the Second Judicial Department, Respondent.
Argued May 24, 1961;
decided June 9, 1961.
Herbert Monte Levy for appellant.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Paxton Blair and Ruth Kessler Toch of counsel), for respondent.
Shad Polier, Will Maslow, Leo Pfeffer, Charles A. Reich and Joseph B. Robison for American Jewish Congress, amicus curiae.

Opinion:
Order reversed, without costs, and the matter remitted to the Appellate Division for further proceedings. We find no sufficient basis in this record for denying petitioner's application for admission to the Bar. No opinion.
Concur: Chief Judge Desmond and Judges Dye, Fuld, Froessel, Van Voorhis, Burke and Foster.