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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Ind. Courts - More on: Wisconsin's diploma privilege under attack
Updating this ILB entry from April 11th, Ashby Jones of the WSJ Law Blog wrote yesterday, in an entry that begins:
Back when we were studying for the bar exam, we remember being seriously envious of all those recent University of Wisconsin law school graduates who planned on practicing in the Badger State. Why? A Wisconsin rule, called the “diploma privilege,” provides that graduates of the law schools at the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University don’t have to take the Wisconsin bar exam in order to practice in Wisconsin. On Wisconsin, indeed.But is that rule fair to graduates of the law schools at Harvard or UCLA or, well, Oklahoma City University? Well, one Oklahoma City University School of Law graduate doesn’t think so. Christopher Wiesmueller, a lawyer in Waukesha, Wisc., has sued both the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the agency that administers the Wisconsin bar exam, alleging that the rule violates the Constitution’s dormant commerce clause — which, generally speaking, prohibits one state from discriminating against residents of other states.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 15, 2009 06:28 AM
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