Texas Bar Examiners Escape Race Bias Suit Over Admission Denial

Texas can continue to prevent law school graduates from sitting for the bar exam when they don’t satisfy certain educational requirements, even though the state mistakenly admitted an unqualified person in 2017.

Rejecting a Black applicant’s race based discrimination claim, a statewide appeals court identified more than a dozen similar instances when the state denied a White person from pursuing bar admission.

And though there was a single example of an unqualified White applicant receiving a waiver, it was simply a mistake and not a pretext for discrimination, the Court of Appeals, Fifteenth District said in a unanimous opinion Thursday. ...