To us it seems patent on its face that California has the right to allow its Committee of Bar Examiners to use such a type of examination in demonstration by those seeking admission to its bar, as a qualification standard, that they have the capacity to analyze general legal situations and to make application thereto of such general legal knowledge as can be expected to be possessed by the graduates of accredited law schools.
Put differently, if practical exclusion from a socially marginal activity such as hunting elk is not within the scope of the privileges and immunities clause … maybe neither is the inconveniencing, as distinct from exclusion, of a nonresident seeking to engage in a vital calling such as law.
We turn initially to petitioner’s argument that the denial of his admission to the Delaware Bar based on a single point deficit on the MBE portion of the Bar Examination is manifestly unfair in petitioner’s particular situation… . First, and generally, in any test, there obviously must be a passing line.
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