United States Seventh Circuit

In a class action challenging the Wisconsin policy of allowing graduates of law schools in the state to be admitted to practice law without taking the Wisconsin bar exam, district court's grant of defendants' motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim is reversed and remanded where the case was dismissed prematurely, since questions remain as to whether the diploma privilege discriminates against graduates of out-of state law schools who would like to practice law in Wisconsin and burdens interstate commerce in violation of the Commerce Clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/07/2009
• Decided 07/09/2009
• Published 07/09/2009

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher L. Wiesmueller, Attorney (argued), Kuchler & Cotton, Waukesha, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer Sloan Lattis, Attorney (argued), Office of the Attorney General Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.