Task: songer_casetyp1_9-3

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to identify the issue in the case, that is, the social and/or political context of the litigation in which more purely legal issues are argued. Put somewhat differently, this field identifies the nature of the conflict between the litigants. The focus here is on the subject matter of the controversy rather than its legal basis.
Your task is to determine the specific issue in the case within the broad category of "miscellaneous". 

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.
Appellant brought this proceeding in the District Court to compel appellees, the members of that court’s Committee on Admissions and Grievances, to certify him to the court for admission to its bar. After a hearing, the District Court dismissed his complaint on the ground that he had “failed to establish such qualifications as to character as to warrant his admission at this time to the bar of the court.”
Appellant had taken the bar examination four times, twice in 1937 and twice in 1938. The fourth time he passed. On each of his four applications he was asked whether he had ever been a party to or involved in any legal proceedings. If so, he was asked to state the facts fully. Each time his answer referred only to a judgment recovered against him in the Municipal Court. Three of the four application blanks contained the question “Have you ever applied for the right to practice before any Governmental department, bureau or commission?” In each case he answered “No.” In his latest application he answered “No” to the question “If admitted to such practice have any charges ever been preferred against you?”
In accordance with Rule 93(b) of the District Court, appellees proceeded to inquire whether appellant was of good moral character. They learned that he had formerly engaged for several years in representing claimants in trade-mark matters in the Patent Office; that in 1931 he was excluded from that practice, on charges of gross misconduct, by formal action of the Commissioner of Patents, after notice and a hearing at which he failed to appear; that he appealed to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; and that that court, after a hearing which- appellant attended, sustained the order of the Commissioner.
Appellees thereupon gave appellant a full hearing. He was examined at length, and several witnesses testified by affidavit to his good character. Appellees found that he was lacking in that good moral character which should be possessed by members of the bar. Among other things they found that he had been guilty of gross misconduct in his Patent Office practice and that in failing to allude, in his applications for admission to the bar, to his exclusion from Patent Office practice and to the judicial proceedings which confirmed it, he had attempted to deceive appellees into believing that he had never been a party to such proceedings and that no charges had ever been preferred against him before any government bureau.
The evidence fully sustains the findings of the Committee and of the District Court. There is nothing in the record which either authorizes or inclines us to interfere with the court’s judgment. The matter concerns the integrity of the court’s bar. Within very wide limits, standards of fitness for membership in the bar of the District Court are for the District Court itself to establish and maintain. In our own opinion, appellant’s lack of candor in his repeated applications for admission to the bar is reason enough for his exclusion. If his statements in those applications were not expressly false, they carried false implications. If appellant has sufficient understanding to be a member of the bar he must have been aware of those implications. He expresses no regret for his statements. He does not attempt to excuse them as hasty or inadvertent; on the contrary, he attempts to justify them by saying that he “was never admitted to practice before the United States Patent Office; it was not necessary to be admitted to pursue such matters as he pursued there.” One who repeatedly prevaricates or equivocates in legal documents is not qualified to be a member of the bar, for a lawyer whose word cannot be relied upon is a menace to clients, the courts, and the public. A Committee on Admissions and Grievances has no higher duty than that which appellees have discharged.
Affirmed.
Cf. New York Cent. R. Co. v. Johnson, 279 U.S. 310, 319, 49 S.Ct. 300, 73 L.Ed. 706; Matter of Yardum, 218 App. Div. 134, 218 N.Y.S. 6; Matter of Steinberg, 233 App.Div. 301, 252 N.Y.S. 755.

Question: What is the specific issue in the case within the general category of "miscellaneous"?
A. miscellaneous interstate conflict
B. other federalism issue (only code as issue if opinion explicitly discusses federalism as an important issue - or if opinion explicity discusses conflict of state power vs federal power)
C. attorneys (disbarment; etc)
D. selective service or draft issues (which do not include 1st amendment challenges)
E. challenge to authority of magistrates, special masters, etc.
F. challenge to authority of bankruptcy judge or referees in bankruptcy
G. Indian law - criminal verdict challenged due to interpretation of tribal statutes or other indian law
H. Indian law - commercial disputes based on interpretation of Indian treaties or law (includes disputes over mineral rights)
I. Indian law - Indian claims acts and disputes over real property (includes Alaska Native Claims Act)
J. Indian law - federal regulation of Indian land and affairs
K. Indian law - state/local authority over Indian land and affairs
L. Indian law - tribal regulation of economic activities (includes tribal taxation)
M. other Indian law
N. international law
O. immigration (except civil rights claims of immigrants and aliens)
P. other
Q. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: C