Boudreau v. Deloitte, Haskins & Sells

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• finding that promoting reciprocal bar admission on motion is a legitimate interest for purposes of the Equal Protection Clause
• presuming that plaintiff who had not applied for permission to sit for bar exam nonetheless had standing to challenge eligibility criteria since his claim was identical to that of coplaintiff who had applied and was denied permission
• finding that promoting reciprocal bar admission on motion a legitimate interest
• noting that attorney licensing classifications are subject to “rational basis” review
• indicating that state laws that neither employ a suspect classification nor impinge a fundamental right “are entitled to a presumption of validity against attack under the Equal Protection Clause”, which presumption “finds its expression in the rational basis test”
• refusing to focus on the irrational instance of a reciprocity rule as applied to graduates of unaccredited law schools and focusing instead on the rule’s application to all graduates

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