Opinion

Appeal of Kartorie

  • 486 Pa. 500
  • 406 A.2d 746
  • 1979 Pa. LEXIS 695
Court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Oct 10, 1979
Status
Published
Author
Manderino
On the bench
Admission, Bar, Behind, Eagen, Educational, Emphasizing, Flaherty, Larsen, Manderino, Nix, O'Brien, Pennsylvania
Cited by
8 cases
Authority
More cited than 10.5%

The opinion

MANDERINO, Justice,

dissenting.

For the reasons previously set forth by this writer, I must dissent from this Court’s refusal to grant petitioner’s application for admission. Appeal of Ferriman, - Pa. -, 408 A. 2d 844 (1979) (Manderino, J., dissenting opinion); Appeal of Murphy, 482 Pa. 43 , 393 A.2d 369 (1978) (Manderino, J., dissenting opinion, joined by Larsen, J.). Petitioner Helen B. Kartorie, like petitioner Ferriman, supra, graduated from Cleveland-Marshall School of Law. Cleveland-Marshall School of Law was not accredited by the ABA at the time petitioner graduated. For this reason, petitioner’s application for admission was denied. Petitioner successfully passed the Ohio Bar Examination and was admitted to practice before the Ohio Supreme Court. Petitioner is presently employed as Deputy Counsel of the Department of the Navy, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. To deny petitioner’s application because she graduated from a law school not accredited by the ABA is again to deprive citizens the *506 opportunity to practice in Pennsylvania and to deprive Pennsylvania consumers of competent legal services. Hence, my dissent.

LARSEN and FLAHERTY, JJ., join in this dissenting opinion.

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