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In Re Griffiths, 413 U.S. 717 (1973)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
In Re Griffiths, 413 U.S. 717 (1973)
In re Griffiths No. 71-1336 Argued January 9, 1973 Decided June 25, 1973 413 U.S. 717
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF CONNECTICUT
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Appellant, a resident alien, was denied permission to take the Connecticut bar examination solely because of a citizenship requirement imposed by a state court rule, which the state courts upheld against applicant’s constitutional challenge.
Held: Connecticut’s exclusion of aliens from the practice of law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Classifications based on alienage, being inherently suspect, are subject to close judicial scrutiny, and here the State through appellee bar committee has not met its burden of showing the classification to have been necessary to vindicate the State’s undoubted interest in maintaining high professional standards. Pp. 722-729.
162 Conn. 249, 294 A.2d 281, reversed and remanded.
POWELL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which DOUGLAS, BRENNAN, STEWART, WHITE, MARSHALL, and BLACKMUN, JJ., joined. BURGER, C.J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which REHNQUIST, J., joined, post, p. 730. REHNQUIST, J., filed a dissenting opinion, ante p. 649.
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