Lawsuit Challenges Louisiana Ban on Nonresident Foreigners Taking Bar Exam
This is a strange one: "Tulane University law student Emily Maw of Wales wanted to stay in Louisiana after graduation to represent death row inmates and defendants in capital cases. Now she is thinking about practicing in Mississippi instead.
"In what is believed to be the only such rule in the nation, Louisiana prohibits nonresident foreigners from taking the state bar exam.
"The rule was issued without explanation by the Louisiana Committee on Bar Admissions in 2000 and upheld without comment by the state Supreme Court last year, triggering speculation that the justices were simply tired of foreign defense attorneys using clever arguments to get death sentences overturned," the AP reports here.