Law Practice
Sep. 8, 2012
State Bar argues Supreme Court has authority to make law admitting undocumented lawyer
The California Supreme Court can make law to allow it to admit an undocumented immigrant as a lawyer, despite a federal statute banning professional licenses to unauthorized aliengs, the State Bar said in a late-filed brief.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Despite a federal statute banning professional licenses for undocumented immigrants, the California Supreme Court can create law that would allow an undocumented law school graduate to be admitted to practice here, the State Bar told the court in a brief late Thursday.
"There is no question that the savings clause [in the federal statute] could be used to grant undocumented immigrants elig...
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