Opinion ID: 1754792
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Heading Rank: 11

Heading: record regarding budman's mpre score

Text: Budman filed a Class I-A application for admission to Nebraska's bar, and as noted above, one of the requirements under a Class I-A application is a score of at least 85 on the MPRE. See rules 5A(1)(c) and 16. Evidently, the record before the Commission at the hearing of January 6, 2006, did not contain evidence of Budman's MPRE score in Colorado. The bill of exceptions shows that the record made at the hearing before the Commission on Budman's application was left open, so that Budman's MPRE score could be added thereto. The record transmitted to this court, however, was devoid of any indication of Budman's MPRE score. In this regard, we note that the record does contain a copy of the Commission's Individual Personal History Information Report, which appears to be an inventory which the Commission compiles summarizing the results of its review of a bar applicant's materials. However, this report does not appear to contain a separate entry on which to record the MPRE results when the MPRE has been taken in another jurisdiction. Therefore, the record presented to this court failed to show the satisfaction of the MPRE requirement of rule 5A(1)(c) and, to the contrary, tended to show that Budman's MPRE results had not been provided at the time the hearing before the Commission concluded. During oral argument before this court, the parties were granted leave to supplement the record with Budman's MPRE score, and following oral argument, the Commission submitted an affidavit containing Budman's MPRE test results, demonstrating that Budman had satisfied Nebraska's MPRE requirement. See rule 5A(1)(c). The court has reviewed the record, as supplemented, in the instant case and determined that Budman has satisfied Nebraska's MPRE requirement.