Margulis v. State Bar of California

845 F.2d 215 Sanford J. MARGULIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA; Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California; Diane Yu; Mark C. Allen; Marguerite Archie-Hudson; et al., Defendants-Appellees. No. 87-5889. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 9, 1987. Decided April 25, 1988. Sanford J. Margulis, pro se. Truitt A. Richey, Jr., The State Bar of California, San Francisco, Cal., Melvin R. Segal, Supervising Deputy Atty. Gen., Attorney General's Office, San Diego, Cal., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Before WALLACE, NORRIS and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: 1 Appellant Sanford J. Margulis is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York. After failing the California Bar Examination in February 1985, Margulis filed this suit in federal district court against the State Bar of California, the Committee of Bar Examiners ("the Committee"), eleven former and present members of the Committee, and the State of California. Margulis raised a plethora of constitutional challenges to California Bar Examination procedures. The district court…