Court Opinion

ID: 9793618
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:50:39.890292+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:06:14.611788
License: Public Domain

Hicks, J.
(concurring) — APR 2(B)(2)(b), as it existed prior to this case, required an alien general applicant to declare his intention to become a citizen of the United States before he would be permitted to take the bar examination, the prerequisite to admission to the bar of the State of Washington. That rule seems eminently reasonable to me, and I find that I agree with much of what Hale, J. (dissenting) said in In re Chi-Dooh Li, 79 Wn.2d 561, 567, 488 P.2d 259 (1971), when the requirement was modified that one must become a citizen before he could become a practicing attorney in this state. Nonetheless, I concur in the result in this case solely because the decisions of the United States Supreme Court seem to permit no other.
Wright, C.J., and Rosellini and Brachtenbach, JJ., concur with Hicks, J.