A Black female out-of-state lawyer who alleges that the Texas Board of Law Examiners denied her request for admission to the state bar without a bar exam, due to racial and sex discrimination, will get to amend her equal protection pleading, a Texas appeals court ruled Wednesday.
But the Texas Court of Appeals, Third District dismissed her substantive and procedural due course of law claims under the Texas Constitution.
Deborah Sonnenschein didn’t meet the requirements for admission because she didn’t obtain her degree from an approved law school, according to the board. Sonnenschein obtained a J.D. from Northwestern California University ...
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