Teare v. Committee on Admissions

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “any case by case consideration of waivers invites the risk of disparate treatment of similar cases, and thus carries its own potential unfairness”
• holding that the Full Faith and Credit Clause allowed the District to use its own rules where they were a “matter of local policy, and not a judgment on the merits in a case or controversy”
• examining and rejecting on their merits petitioners’ constitutional arguments for District of Columbia bar admission
• rejecting claim that requirement of graduation from accredited law school violated rights of nonresident aliens under Privileges and Immunities Clause where requirement applied equally to residents and nonresidents alike
• requirements for licensure and admission to D.C. Bar without examination must be facially neutral and apply with equal force to all individuals regardless of place of origin

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).