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Joseph Robert Giannini, Esq.

12016 Wilshire Blvd. #5
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone 310 442 9386
Fax 310 207 1779
Email [email protected]

Attorney for Plaintiffs,



UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for
the ADVANCEMENT
of MULTIJURISDICTION
PRACTICE (NAAMJP),
Robert Vereb, Benjamin Josef
Doscher,

Plaintiffs

vs.



Defendants,

Jerome B. Simandle, Chief Judge,
United States District Court for the
District of New Jersey, Mary L.
Cooper, Joel A. Pisano, Peter G.
Sheridan, Michael Shipp
Anne E. Thompson, Freda L.
Wolfson, Renee Marie Bumb, Noel
L. Hillman, Joseph E. Irenas,
Robert B. Kugler, Joseph H.
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CIVIL ACTION NO.

COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE &
DECLARATORY RELIEF TO
ABROGATE LCivR 101 (a) & (e)
AND TO AMEND AND ENLARGE
THEM TO PROVIDE GENERAL
ADMISSION PRIVILEGES TO ALL
SISTER-STATE ATTORNEYS
ADMITTED IN GOOD STANDING
IN ANY STATE SUPREME COURT
OR UNITED STATES COURT
UNDER
1. 28 U.S.C. 2071-72
2. SUPREMACY CLAUSE
3. FIRST AMENDMENT
4. FIFTH AMENDMENT EQUAL
PROTECTION CLAUSE
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Rodriguez, Karen M Williams,
Dennis M. Cavanaugh, Claire C.
Cecchi, Stanley R. Chesler,
Dickinson R. Debevoise, Michael
A. Hammer, Katharine S. Hayden,
Faith S. Hochberg, Jose L. Linares,
William J. Martini, Kevin
McNulty, Esther Salas, William H.
Walls, Susan D. Wigenton, the
Hon. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
General
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ADDRESSES
Plaintiffs addresses are as follows: NAAMJP, 12016 Wilshire Blvd. Suite
5, Los Angeles, CA 90025. Robert Verebs address is 69 Baltimore St., Staten
Island, NY 10308. Benjamin Josef Doschers address is 76 Nassau Dr., Great
Neck, NY 11021. James A. Jacksons address is 9519 Dayton Ave. N, Seattle, WA
98103.
Defendants addresses are as follows: The Honorable Chief Judge Jerome B.
Simandle, and the Honorable District Court Judges Renee Marie Bumb, Noel L.
Hillman, Joseph E. Irenas, Robert B. Kugler, Joseph H. Rodriguez, Karen M
Williams are Mitchell H. Cohen Building & U.S. Courthouse, 4th & Cooper
Streets Camden, NJ 08101. The Honorable District Courts Judges Mary L.
Cooper, Joel A. Pisano, Peter G. Sheridan, Michael Shipp, Anne E. Thompson,
Freda L. Wolfson are Clarkson S. Fisher Building & U.S. Courthouse 402 East
State Street, Trenton, NJ 08608. The Honorable District Court Judges Dennis M.
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Cavanaugh, Claire C. Cecchi, Stanley R. Chesler, Dickinson R. Debevoise,
Michael A. Hammer, Katharine S. Hayden, Faith S. Hochberg Jose L. Linares,
William J. Martini, Kevin McNulty, Esther Salas, William H. Walls, Susan D.
Wigenton are Martin Luther King Building & U.S. Courthouse, 50 Walnut Street,
Newark, NJ 07101. The Honorable Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. address is
U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC
20530-0001.
COMPLAINT INTRODUCTION
1. The First Amendment provides that Congress shall make no law
abridging the freedoms of speech, association, and to petition the government for
the redress of grievances. Courts, too, are bound by the First Amendment. The
United States Supreme Court has squarely held that bar admission on motion for
out-of-state attorneys is constitutionally protected, and the norm for bar admission
on motion is comity. Supreme Court of Virginia v. Friedman, 487 U.S. 59 (1988).
The United States Supreme Court has also held the location of a lawyer's office
simply has nothing to do with his or her intellectual ability or experience in
litigating cases in Federal District Court. Frazier v. Heebe, Chief Judge, United
States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana et. al, 482 U.S. 641, 649
(1987)(holding pro hac vice admission is not a reasonable alternative for an out-of-
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state attorney who seeks general admission to the District Court, and invalidating
Local Rule that excluded out-of-state attorneys.)
2. New Jersey LCivR 101(a) provides, Any attorney licensed to practice by
the Supreme Court of New Jersey may be admitted as an attorney at law on motion
of a member of the bar of this Court, made in open court, and upon taking the
prescribed oath and signing the roll. LCivR 101(a) thus categorically denies
general bar admission privileges to the Plaintiffs, and all otherwise qualified
lawyers in good standing admitted to the bar of 49 other States and the District of
Columbia. LCivR 101(e) provides an exception for admission for patent lawyers
who are not members of the New Jersey Supreme Court, if they have an office in
New Jersey for two years. Plaintiffs aver LCivR 101(a) and (e) contradicts
Friedman because it abridges the constitutional norm of reciprocal admission by
limiting general bar admission privileges to members of the New Jersey Supreme
Court. Plaintiffs aver LCivR 101(e) contradicts Frazier because where a patent
lawyer, or any lawyer has his office has nothing what so ever to do with
intellectual ability or experience with litigation in the Federal District Court.
3. Additionally, New Jersey LCivR 101(i) authorizes any attorney in good
standing regardless of State admission to represent any criminal defendant. New
Jersey LCivR 101(f) authorizes any attorney in good standing regardless of State
admission to represent the United States. Thus, under LCivR 101(i) and 101(f)
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both criminals and the United States have an unfettered constitutional right to
counsel and access to the U.S. District Court, but on the other hand, Plaintiffs and
otherwise qualified lawyers in good standing from 49 States and the District of
Columbia are categorically denied these constitutional rights.
4. Plaintiffs aver LCivR 101(a) is an irrational overbroad classification
scheme and a prior restraint that has nothing what-so-ever to do with an attorneys
competence or fitness to practice federal law in the Federal District Court; that it
serves no legitimate governmental purpose; that it has the practical effect of
perpetuating a stereotype and targeting and retaliating against a locally unpopular
group in the exercise of their First Amendment freedoms to speech, association,
and to petition for the redress of grievances; that it is unlawful under the Rules
Enabling Act; that it unlawfully inverts the Supremacy Clause by allowing state
law to trump federal law; that it has the practical effect of providing monopoly
protection for Garden State licensed lawyers; that it is an antiquated guild-like
vestige from a bygone era that continues to exist in this 21
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Century because of
inertia. Plaintiffs seek Declaratory and Injunctive Relief providing reciprocal
general admission privileges for all sister-state attorneys regardless of what State
Supreme Court they are admitted and in good standing, and regardless of where
they have their principal office, and despite whether they practice criminal, civil, or
patent law.
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JURISDICTION AND VENUE
5. This Court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1331. Venue is appropriate
in the District of Columbia.
PARTIES
6. Plaintiff NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT OF
MULTIJURISDICTION PRACTICE (NAAMJP) is a public benefit corporation
organized under California law with offices in Los Angeles, CA 90025. Plaintiff,
like other corporations such as in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,
130 S.Ct. 876 (2010) (holding corporations have First Amendment rights), is
engaged in interstate commerce and advocacy throughout the United States for the
purpose of improving the legal profession, by petitioning for admission on motion
in the dwindling minority of jurisdictions that have not yet adopted the ABAs
recommendations for reciprocal admission for all lawyers. An association can
bring claims on behalf of its members. See Summers v. Earth Island Inst., 555 U.S.
488, 494, (2009). The NAAMJP also asserts association and third-party standing
because many of its members want to remain anonymous for many reasons
including privacy. These members have been handicapped and deprived of their
constitutional rights by the LCvvR 101, which is an overbroad prior restraint that
categorically disqualifies Plaintiffs and all non-New Jersey licensed attorneys
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general admission privileges in the U.S. District Court for the District of New
Jersey.
7. Plaintiff ROBERT VEREB is an American citizen and a member of the
NAAMJP, an honorable discharged American serviceman, a graduate of ABA
accredited St. Johns University School of Law, and an American lawyer in good
standing admitted to the bar of the highest Court in New York since 1999.
Plaintiff graduated from the College of Aeronautics, Flushing, NY with a
Bachelors of Technology in Aviation Maintenance. He has a private pilots license
and is instrument rated. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Aviation Law
and Federal Aviation Regulations for over ten years. He is admitted in good
standing in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts
of New York. Plaintiff has substantial federal court experience. Plaintiff, as a
lawyer and citizen, is professionally and economically disabled by the challenged
Local Rule, which affords him second-class treatment despite his being an
honorably discharged American serviceman. Plaintiff will apply for admission to
the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey bar if its admission rule is
changed.
8. Plaintiff BENJAMIN JOSEF DOSCHER is an American citizen and a
member of the NAAMJP, a graduate of ABA accredited law school Touro College
Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, and an American lawyer in good standing
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admitted to the bar of the highest Court in New York. He obtained an achievement
scholarship in law school, and a Deans Honorary Scholarship at Clark University
in Worcester, MA where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2000. He has
studied international law, criminal law, and human rights law abroad at Jimei
University in China. He has served as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of
Suffolk County, and he has substantial experience in criminal defense, immigration,
and all forms of litigation. He is further admitted to the bar of the United States
Supreme Court; the United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,
Second Circuit; the United States Court of Federal Claims; US Tax Court; the
United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York;
and the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals. Plaintiff, as a lawyer and
citizen, is professionally and economically disabled by the challenged Local Rule,
which affords him second-class treatment. Plaintiff will apply for admission to the
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey bar if its admission rule is
changed.
9. The defendants are the very Hon. Jerome B. Simandle, Chief Judge,
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and his Honorable
associate District Judges: Mary L. Cooper, Joel A. Pisano, Peter G. Sheridan,
Michael Shipp, Anne E. Thompson, Freda L. Wolfson, Renee Marie Bumb, Noel
L. Hillman, Joseph E. Irenas, Robert B. Kugler, Joseph H. Rodriguez, Karen M.
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Williams, Dennis M. Cavanaugh, Claire C. Cecchi, Stanley R. Chesler, Dickinson
R. Debevoise, Michael A. Hammer, Katharine S. Hayden, Faith S. Hochberg, Jose
L. Linares, William J. Martini, Kevin McNulty, Esther Salas, William H. Walls,
Susan D. Wigenton. These Honorable Article III judges are defendants because
they have propounded and enforce LCivR 101. The Honorable Attorney General
Eric H. Holder, Jr. is a defendant because federal law as set forth by the Supreme
Court in interpreting the Constitution, and by Congress in enacting the Rules
Enabling Act mandating federal Local Rule uniformity is not being uniformly
followed or enforced.
FACTS
10. The American Bar Association (ABA) has twice in this 21st Century
carefully studied and recommended the reciprocal admission Plaintiffs have
petitioned for in this case. The ABA MJP Commission (2002) and ABA Ethics
20-20 Commission (2012) studies were undertaken because continually evolving
technology, client demands and a national (as well as global) legal services
marketplace have fueled an increase in cross-border practice as well as a related
need for lawyers to relocate to new jurisdictions. These ABA studies are
undertaken by renowned attorneys, from all over the United States, holding
multiple public hearings all over the United States, and receiving comments from
all arms of the public and bar, before reaching its recommendations, which are then
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submitted for further comment, and eventually to a 500 member ABA House of
Delegates for approval or rejection. The ABA Commissions members are experts
in professional responsibility and bar admission. These reciprocal licensing
findings of fact and conclusions are a matter of public record that this Court may
judicially notice.
11. The US Supreme Court has held professional norms articulated by the
American Bar Association are "(s)tandards to which we have referred as guides to
determining what is reasonable." Wiggins v. Smith, 539 US 510, 524 (2003). The
ABA determined that over 40,000 lawyers in the last five years have been admitted
on motion in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The ABA entered a factual
finding that there was no evidence that these lawyers were a threat to the public or
needed to take another bar exam.
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The ABA squarely recommends that in light of
ever increasing advances in technology that all states should adopt bar admission

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The Commission also found unpersuasive the concern that passage of the bar
examination is necessary to demonstrate knowledge of the law of the jurisdiction
in which the lawyer is seeking admission. As explained above, more than 65,000
lawyers have obtained admission by motion in the last ten years, and there is no
evidence from disciplinary counsel or any other source that these lawyers have
been unable to practice competently in the new jurisdiction or have been unable to
identify and understand aspects of the new jurisdictions law that differ from the
law of the jurisdiction where those lawyers were originally admitted. The
Commission also concluded that the local law concern rests on the incorrect
assumption that passage of the bar examination demonstrates competence in local
law. In fact, an increasing number of jurisdictions use the Uniform Bar
Examination, which typically does not require any knowledge of local law. And in
jurisdictions that do test local law, the local law portion of the test is usually
sufficiently small that bar passage does not turn on it.
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on motion for lawyers with three years of experience. The Commission on Ethics
20-20 found no reason to believe that lawyers who have been engaged in the
active practice of law for three of the last seven years will be any less able to
practice law in a new jurisdiction than a law school graduate who recently passed
the bar. The ABA concluded the failure to have admission on motion injures the
public and the profession; women lawyers are further disproportionately injured.
12. These ABA judgments are game-changers because they demolish the
doctrine experienced attorneys should take a second licensing exam much like
historical myths that blacks were inferior, women were witches, and that literacy
tests were necessary to vote were superseded by cultural advances stemming
from science and better evidence.
13. The ABA MJP Commission (2002) and Commission on Ethics 20/20
(2012) necessarily presumed if by law, a layman is presumed to know the law,
or can presumptively find it, and is presumptively capable of representing herself
a fortiori an experienced licensed attorney can do the same. The hypothesis
that a layman is presumptively competent, while on the other hand, an experienced
lawyer is presumptively incompetent is implausible and irrational. The ABA
essentially concluded, in accordance with the Constitution of the United States,
that if all men are created equal, then all lawyers are created equal.
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14. The ABA has further recommended that the U.S. District Court policy of
restricting practice privileges to lawyers who are admitted to the State bar in which
the district is located should be eliminated. Recommendation 8A was adopted by
the ABA House of Delegates in 1995. The ABA concluded that Given the global
nature of law practice today, parochial local rules are inefficient, unduly costly to
clients and/or lawyers and anti-competitive.
15. The ABA has also obviously considered Supreme Court precedent.
There is a presumption that the lawyer is competent to provide the guiding hand
that the defendant needs applies even to young and inexperienced lawyers in their
first jury trial and even when the case is complex. United States v. Cronic, 466 U.
S. 648, 658, 664 (1984); See also Supreme Court of Virginia v. Friedman, supra,
487 U.S. 59 (1988)(holding admission on motion is a constitutionally protected
Privilege and Immunity, and the Supreme Court will not presume that non-resident
attorneys or citizens are not fully qualified for bar admission on motion); See
Frazier v. Heebe, supra, 482 U.S. 641, 649 (1987) (holding the location of a
lawyer's office simply has nothing to do with his or her intellectual ability or
experience in litigating cases in Federal District Court. )
16. Another game changer in reciprocal bar admission is the Uniform Bar
Examination (UBE), which was created and pioneered by the National Conference
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of Bar Examiners (NCBE).
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The NCBE developed the UBE in an effort to create
uniformity between the various legal bar examinations administered by the states.
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Law schools are teaching a national curriculum. The Uniform Bar Examination
(UBE) recognizes that trend. In addition, lawyers are relocating more frequently.
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The UBE is intended to facilitate lawyer mobility across jurisdictional lines. State
Supreme Court justices in 13 States have adopted the UBE. The UBE does not test
state law. A novice lawyer admitted in any UBE state is eligible for reciprocal
licensing in all UBE states.
17. Bedford T. Bentley, a Maryland licensing official and a member of the
UBEC, in referencing the ABA MacCrate Commission (1992), has concluded that
one bar exam is more than enough as they do not test nine out of ten fundamental
lawyer skills.
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http://www.ncbex.org/assets/media_files/UBE/ABA-Uniform-Bar-Exam-2010-
Council-9-14-v2-3.pdf
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http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/one_for_all_uniform_bar_exam_pick
ing_up_steam/
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Arizona State Bar Board of Governors: September Meeting Review (Sept. 2010).
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Robert MacCrate is the distinguished former chairman of the ABA's Task Force
on Law Schools and the Profession (1992). The well-regarded MacCrate
Report describes the skills and virtues necessary to be an effective lawyer. The
"MacCrate Report" identifies ten fundamental lawyering skills:
(1) problem solving, (2) legal analysis and reasoning, (3) legal research,
(4) factual investigation, (5) communication, (6) counseling, (7) negotiation,
(8) litigation and alternative dispute resolution, (9) the organization and
management of legal work, (10) professional self-development.
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18. A bar exam is a test of minimum competence to practice law. See
Rebecca White Berch
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Feb 2009 p. 12. The purpose of this licensing test is public protection. The ABA
and UBEC have concluded that one bar exam is more than enough. The ABA
concluded the best evidence of minimum competence and public protection is
actual experience in practicing law. The UBEC concluded that even novice
attorneys should not have to take a second licensing test.
19. The Obama Administration, through the Department of Defense,
prepared a report outlining ways in which states could improve their
multijurisdictional admission rules. The report, titled Supporting Our Military
Families: Best Practices for Streamlining Occupational Licensing Across State
Lines, was presented by the First Lady MICHELLE OBAMA and JILL BIDEN,
wife of Vice President JOE BIDEN, at a Pentagon event in February 2012.
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20. The report notes that military families face unique circumstances of
having to move across jurisdictional lines far more often than other American

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The Honorable Rebecca White Berch is the Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme
Court and the Chair of the Uniform Bar Exam Commission. Justice Berch
approached this issue as a former bar examiner, question procurer, grader, and
floor monitor, and now as a member of the state supreme court, which is charged
with oversight of bar admissions.
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Amy Bushatz, WH Pushes States to Ease Spouse License Rules, Military.com
(Feb.15, 2012),
http://m.military.com/news/articlerss/wh-pushes-states-to-ease-spouse-license-
rules.xml/1
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families, making it difficult for an attorney spouse to gain admission to practice
and earn a living before it is time to relocate to anther jurisdiction.
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Brad Cooper,
head of the White Houses Military Support Office noted, Military families are
asked to move again and againoftentimes, that means they are coming into a
new state which often requires different licensing and credentialing
standardsThe fact of the matter is that this transition is a huge headache and a
barrier to employment for spouses.
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21. According to national studies commissioned by Microsoft, the law is
diversifying at a much slower rate than are other professions. Microsoft found that
8.4 percent of the nations lawyers are African Americans and Hispanics, though
those minority groups represent more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce. The
Microsoft study suggests that bar passage rates are part of the problem. "A
significant proportion of under-represented minorities who graduate from law
school do not pass the bar," the report says.
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The diversity pipeline is further
clogged by Federal District Court guild-like Local Rules that require all

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See ABA Journal December 11, 2013
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/law_lags_other_professions_in_minority_
hiring_which_group_is_most_dramatica/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=em
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experienced attorneys to re-invent the wheel by taking another States entry-level
bar all over again.
22. The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (1999)
(Published by the American Educational Research Association, American
Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in
Education) (Standards) were developed to provide criteria for the evaluation of
tests, testing practices, and the effects of test use. Id. at p. 2. When tests are at
issue in legal proceedings and other venues requiring expert witness testimony it is
essential that professional judgment be based on the accepted corpus of knowledge
in determining the relevance of particular standards in a given situation. The intent
of the Standards is to offer guidance for such judgments. Id. at 4.
23. The Standards also emphasize that evaluating acceptability (of a test)
involves (a) professional judgment that is based on a knowledge of behavioral
science, psychometrics, and the community standards in the professional field to
which the tests apply; (b) the degree to which the intent of the standard has been
satisfied by the test developer and user; (c) the alternatives that are readily
available; and (d) research and experimental evidence regarding feasibility of
meeting the standard. Id. at 4.
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24. Plaintiffs aver that LCivR 101 (a) which limits general admission
privileges to members of the New Jersey bar violates the legal industry licensing
standards for reciprocal licensing established by the ABA and UBEC.
25. Plaintiffs aver that LCivR 101 (a) adopted a long time ago by majority
vote of the honorable defendants functions in this 21
st
Century as a template for
other United States District Courts to model that undermines the legal industry
standard for reciprocal licensing, providing a monopoly for New Jersey lawyers,
eviscerating the United States as a single entity, undermining the integrity of the
legal profession and the United States Judiciary.
FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION
VIOLATION OF 28 U.S.C. 2071-72

26. The preceding allegations and the allegations in the subsequent causes of
action are incorporated in this cause of action.
27. Plaintiffs are not aware of any published case challenging U.S. District
Court local general admission rules decided pursuant to Title IV of the Judicial
Improvements and Access to Justice Act of 1988. (Public Law 100 -- 702).
Section 2071 is concerned with each court making local rules for itself. Section
2072 is concerned with the promulgation of the general rules of national
applicability.
28. 28 U.S.C. 2071. Rule-making power, provides:
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(a) The Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may
from time to time prescribe rules for the conduct of their business. Such
rules shall be consistent with Acts of Congress and rules of practice and
procedure prescribed under section 2072 of this title. (Emphasis added)

29. 28 U.S.C. 2072. Rules of procedure and evidence; power to prescribe,
provides,
(b) Such rules shall not abridge, enlarge or modify any substantive right.
(Emphasis added)

30. Section 2071, as noted above is concerned with each court making rules
for itself. Section 2071(a) incorporates the standard set forth in Section 2072.
Thus, 2071 and 2072 added together means that District Court Local Rules shall
not abridge, enlarge or modify any substantive right. (Emphasis added). This is a
standard of review higher than strict scrutiny because it applies to any substantive
right, not just constitutional rights.
31. LCivR 101(a) disables the mandatory constraint (shall) set forth in 28
U.S.C. 2072(b) because it categorically modifies and enlarges the privileges of
members of the bar of New Jersey licensing attorneys by granting them general
admission privileges; and it categorically modifies and abridges the substantive
rights of the Plaintiffs, and other members of the bar of the remaining 49 State
Supreme Courts and the District of Columbia, by denying them general admission
privileges.
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32. LCivR 101(a) abridges and modifies the substantive rights of Americans:
to counsel, the right to association, and the right to petition the government for the
redress of grievances by categorically excluding Plaintiffs and other highly
qualified lawyers; and it categorically enlarges the substantive rights of the
members of the bar of 25 U.S. District Courts.
33. LCivR 101(a) disables the mandatory constraint (shall) set forth in 28
U.S.C. 2072(b) because the Supreme Court has held that admission on motion is
a constitutionally protected Privilege and Immunity, and the Supreme Court will
not presume that non-resident attorneys or citizens are not fully qualified for bar
admission on motion. See Supreme Court of Virginia v. Friedman, supra, 487 U.S.
59 (1988). LCivR 101(a) disqualifies the otherwise qualified Plaintiffs in
exercising their constitutional right to admission on motion, and their First
Amendment rights to speech, association, and petition. An attorneys stock in
trade is advocacy, associating with their clients, and petitioning for the redress of
grievances.
34. LCivR 101 (e) disables the constraint (shall) set forth in 28 U.S.C.
2072(b) because the Supreme Court has held the location of a lawyer's office
simply has nothing to do with his or her intellectual ability or experience in
litigating cases in Federal District Court. See Frazier v. Heebe, supra, 482 U.S.
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641, 649 (1987). LCivR 101(e), in part, disqualifies the otherwise qualified
Plaintiff solely on the basis of the location of their principal office.
35. The assumption underlying LCivR 101 (a) that bar admission in a
preferred state is a necessary attribute of competence for U.S. District Court bar
admission is antiquated; it flies in the face of the Local Rules in 34 District Courts
that do not discriminate in bar admission; it turns upside down the ABA and
UBEC recommendations for reciprocal admission.
36. The National Rules for federal bar admission are ratified or enacted by
Acts of Congress. These include Supreme Court Rule 5, FRAP 46 and 5 U.S.C.
500(b). The National Rules for bar admission authorize admission to all sister-
state attorneys, not just attorneys admitted in the New Jersey Supreme Court. By
contrast, District Court Local Rules are not ratified or enacted by Congress. Thus,
LCivR 101(a) disables the constraint set forth in 28 U.S.C. 2072(b) because it
abridges Plaintiffs substantive rights as members of the bar by authorizing them
the rights to practice before federal administrative agencies, the United States
Courts of Appeal, and the Supreme Court, but not in the District Court for the
District of New Jersey.
SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION
VIOLATION OF THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE

37. The preceding allegations and the allegations in the subsequent causes of
action are incorporated in this cause of action.
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38. The state and federal courts are distinct and each has authority over its
bar admission standards and members. State licensing requirements which purport
to regulate private individuals who appear before a federal instrumentality are
invalid. Sperry v. Florida, 373 U.S. 379, (1963) is the leading case. The Supreme
Court held that a "State may not enforce licensing requirements which . . . give the
State's licensing board a virtual power of review over the federal determination that
a person or agency is qualified and entitled to perform certain functions," and
found that the state's licensing requirements could not govern practice before the
PTO. Id. at 385, 388. The Supreme Court concluded that applying state licensing
requirements to practitioners appearing before the PTO would have a "disruptive
effect," given that one-quarter of the attorney practitioners before the PTO would
have been disqualified because they were not licensed in the state in which they
were practicing. Sperry, 373 U.S. at 401.
39. LCivR 101 (a) for the same reasons has a disruptive effect; by
vicariously adopting state law it unlawfully trumps the Supremacy Clause; the
practical effect of this Federal Local Rule is to create a monopoly for New Jersey
attorneys.
40. In Augustine v. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, 429 F.3d 1334, 1341 (Fed. Cir.
2005), the question of whether federal law may adopt or incorporate state law
standards as its own, was expressly raised and rejected. There, the Court held
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incorporation "is controlled by the will of Congress. In the absence of a plain
indication to the contrary . . . it is to be assumed when Congress enacts a statute
that it does not intend to make its application dependent on state law." Id. at 1340.
The presumption here again is that federal law does not incorporate state standards.
Id. at 1342. The Court further held that the purpose of the Congressional fee-
shifting statute can be served only by allowing fees for representatives who are
licensed as attorneys in any state or federal jurisdiction, without regard to the state
licensing requirements of the state in which services were rendered. Id. at 1343.
By the same reasoning, District Court Local Rules that incorporate state bar
admission rules from the 15 favored States "impose . . . additional conditions" not
contemplated by Congress. Sperry, supra, 373 U.S. at 385. These additional
conditions are squarely opposed to the Rules Enabling Act, Sections 2071-72 noted
above.
THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION
NJ LCivR 101(a) & (e) VIOLATES THE FIRST AMENDMENT
41. The preceding allegations and the allegations in the subsequent causes of
action are incorporated in this cause of action. The operations of the courts and the
judicial conduct of judges are matters of utmost public concern. Landmark
Communications, Inc. v. Virginia, 435 U.S. 829, 839 (1978). Litigation is a form
of political expression. In re Primus, 436 U.S. 412, 428. The First Amendment
protects litigation [as] a means for achieving the lawful objectives of equality by
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all government. NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415, 429 (1963). It is thus a form of
political expression. Ibid. It is no answer to the constitutional claims that the
purpose of these regulations was merely to insure high professional standards and
not to curtail free expression. Id. at 438-39. Regulations and practices that
unjustifiably obstruct the availability of professional representation or other aspects
of the right of access to the courts are invalid. Procunier v. Martinez, 416 U.S. 396,
419 (1974).
A. NJ LCivR 101(a) & (e) Are Substantially Overbroad

42. A state law may be deemed constitutionally invalid if it is substantially
overbroad. Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413 U.S. 601 (1973). A government
regulation is substantially overbroad if it suppresses substantially more speech than
necessary to achieve its goal. Id. at 612. NJ LCivR 101 chills more speech than
necessary by categorically discriminating against all otherwise qualified lawyers,
from 49 States and the District of Columbia.
43. This categorical disqualification is patently overbroad, not narrowly
tailored, and therefore unconstitutional.
B. NJ LCivR 101 Constitutes Unlawful Content and Viewpoint
Discrimination

44. The Supreme Court has recognized that the basic analysis under the First
Amendment has not turned on the motives of the legislators, but on the effect of
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the regulation. Young v. American Mini Theaters, 427 U.S. 50, 78 (1975) The true
motive behind the creation and adoption for LCvR 83.8 (a)(2) does not change the
First Amendment analysis; it is its effect that we must look to in determining its
constitutionality.
45. A regulation that denies one group of citizens the right to address a
selected audience on controversial issues of public policy is plainly viewpoint
discrimination. Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Serv. Comnn, 447 U.S. 530,
546 (1980). Viewpoint discrimination is thus an egregious form of content
discrimination. Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of Univ. of Va., 515 US 819,
829 (1995); Perry Ed. Assn. v. Perry Local Educators' Assn., 460 U. S. 37, 46
(1983). "To permit one side of a debatable public question to have a monopoly in
expressing its views is the antithesis of constitutional guarantees." Madison Joint
School Dist. No. 8 v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Comm'n, 429 U.S. 167,
175-176 (1976). A law or policy permitting communication in a certain manner
for some but not for others raises the specter of content and viewpoint censorship.
This danger is at its zenith when the determination of who may speak and who may
not is left to the unbridled discretion of a government official. Lakewood v. Plain
Dealer Publishing Co, 486 U.S. 750, 763 (1988).
46. LCivR 101(a) allows New Jersey licensed attorneys to obtain a federal
license and petition the federal courts and speak; whereas, it categorically prohibits
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attorneys from 49 States and the District of Columbia the same precious freedoms.
LCivR 101(a) is not a time, place, and manner restriction because it is not
viewpoint and content neutral.
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LCivR 101(a) permits licensing and debate by
one group of otherwise qualified experienced attorneys while denying another
group of otherwise qualified attorneys the same precious freedoms. Therefore, 101
(a) is content and viewpoint discrimination.
47. Moreover, distinctions in the right to exercise First Amendment
freedoms are subject to strict scrutiny. In Citizens United v. Federal Election
Commission, 130 S.Ct. 876, (2010), the Court held:
Quite apart from the purpose or effect of regulating content, moreover,
the Government may commit a constitutional wrong when by law it
identifies certain preferred speakers. By taking the right to speak from
some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the
disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to
establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker's voice. The
Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right
and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are
worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and
speaker, and the ideas that flow from each. Id. at 890


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To be upheld as a constitutional time, place or manner restriction a permit
requirement applying to First Amendment activity must "(1) be content-neutral, (2)
be narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest, and (3) leave open
ample alternative channels of expression." Ward v. Rock Against Racism, 491 U.S.
781, 789-90 (1989). The Local Rule restrictions are not time, place, or manner
restrictions because they are not content neutral.


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Any effort by the Judiciary to decide which means of communications
are to be preferred for the particular type of message and speaker
would raise questions as to the courts' own lawful authority.
Substantial questions would arise if courts were to begin saying what
means of speech should be preferred or disfavored. Id. at 890
48. The basic premise underlying the Court's ruling in Citizens United is the
proposition that the First Amendment bars regulatory distinctions based on a
speaker's identity, including its "identity" as a corporation. Id. at 930 (Justice
STEVENS in dissent). Courts, too, are bound by the First Amendment. Id. at 891.
If corporations have First Amendment rights, it cannot be disputed Plaintiffs have
First Amendment rights. An attorneys stock in trade is speech/advocacy,
association and representing their clients, and petitioning for the redress of
grievances.
49. LCivR 101 further makes multiple differential licensing distinctions
based on whether the lawyer is representing the government, or a criminal
defendant, a civil litigant, or a patent attorney with offices in New Jersey for two
years.
50. The hypothesis that a layman is presumptively competent to represent
themselves, unless he or she is mentally ill, while on the other hand, Plaintiff
experienced lawyers from 49 states and the District of Columbia are presumptively
incompetent makes no sense. It is content and viewpoint discrimination. Therefore,
LCvR 83.8 (a)(2) is unconstitutional.
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C. NJ LCivR 101(a) is An Unconstitutional Prior Restraint

51. Prior restraints on First Amendment rights are presumptively
unconstitutional. Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad, 420 U.S. 546, 558,
(1975). In its simple, most blatant form, a prior restraint is a law which requires
submission of speech to an official who may grant or deny permission to utter or
publish it based upon its contents. Alexander v. United States, supra, 509 U.S. 544,
556 . ( KENNEDY dissenting)
52. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Com'n, supra, 558 U.S. 310, 130
S. Ct. 876, 891 (2010), the corporation was barred from publishing its view in a
film about Hilary Clinton The First Amendment freedoms to advocacy, association,
petition, and press are inextricably intertwined. Lawyers have a constitutional duty
and function much like the press. In Citizens United the Court affirmed:
These onerous restrictions thus function as the equivalent of prior
restraint by giving the FEC power analogous to licensing laws
implemented in 16th- and 17th-century England, laws and
governmental practices of the sort that the First Amendment was drawn
to prohibit. See Thomas v. Chicago Park Dist., 534 U.S. 316, 320, 122
S.Ct. 775, 151 L.Ed.2d 783 (2002); Lovell v. City of Griffin, 303 U.S. 444,
451-452, 58 S.Ct. 666, 82 L.Ed. 949 (1938); Near, supra, at 713-714, 51
S.Ct. 625. Because the FEC's "business is to censor, there inheres the danger
that [it] may well be less responsive than a courtpart of an independent
branch of governmentto the constitutionally protected interests in free
expression." Freedman v. Maryland, 380 U.S. 51, 57-58, 85 S.Ct. 734, 13
L.Ed.2d 649 (1965). When the FEC issues advisory opinions that prohibit
speech, "[m]any persons, rather than undertake the considerable burden (and
sometimes risk) of vindicating their rights through case-by-case litigation,
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will choose simply to abstain from protected speechharming not only
themselves but society as a whole, which is deprived of an uninhibited
marketplace of ideas. 130 S.Ct. at 895-96. (Emphasis added)

53. The Supreme Court held these FEC prior approval regulations on their
face chilled the corporations speech.
54. In the same way, LCivR 101 restrains the Plaintiffs, and it chills
otherwise qualified attorneys from 49 states and the District of Columbia from
exercising their right to engage in speech in the Federal District Court in New
Jersey concerning matters of public concern, solely because they are not members
of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
55. If corporations have First Amendment rights, then lawyers have First
Amendment rights. Requiring experienced, admittedly qualified attorneys to obtain
prior approval from the Defendants licensing official by passing another entry
level licensing exam with highly subjective tests functions as a prior restraint
analogous and equivalent to the licensing of printing presses in the 16
th
and 17
th

Century. Ibid. The loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods
of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury. Elrod v. Burns, supra, 427
U.S. 347, 373-74 (1976)
56. The American Bar Associations admission on motion conclusions are
rendered by experts in the field and are state of the art in the lawyer licensing
industry. Experts rely on many forms of evidence for their conclusions. The
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National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) field of expertise is bar
licensing. Dr. Susan M. Case writes a Testing Column for the NCBE in their
Bible, The Bar Examiner. She writes in the Testing Column, The purpose of the
bar examination is to determine the extent to which would-be lawyers have the
requisite knowledge and skills to serve as newly licensed practitioners.
(Emphasis added) See Susan M. Case, The NCBE Job Analysis: A Study of The
Newly Licensed Lawyer The Bar Examiner p. 52 (March 2013).
57. Similarly, the Honorable REBECCA WHITE BERCH is the Chief
Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court and the Chair of the Uniform Bar Exam
Commission. The UBEC and NCBE work hand in hand. Justice BERCH and her
UBEC colleagues are nationally recognized experts on bar admission. She writes,
A bar exam is a test of minimum competence to practice law. Berch. The Case
for the Uniform Bar Exam, The Bar Examiner, Feb 2009 p. 12 Justice BERCH
approached this issue as a former bar examiner, question procurer, grader, and
floor monitor, and now as a member of the state supreme court, which is charged
with oversight of bar admissions. Her UBEC colleague, Bedford T. Bentley, Jr.
writes, The bar examination cannot and does not test many of the skills identified
by the MacCrate Report as fundamental to the successful practice of law. See
Bentley, Rethinking the Purpose of the Bar Examination, February 2009 p. 17,
The Bar Examiner. Thirteen States have adopted the UBE, which does not test
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State Specific law, and allows novice attorneys from these jurisdictions reciprocal
admission. The UBEC has essentially concluded that in this 21
st
Century one bar
exam is more than enough.
58. Dr. Geoff Norman is an internationally recognized expert on testing. It is
well known in the field of psychometrics that Study after study demonstrates that
it is almost impossible to get judges to agree on a score for essay tests. See Geoff
Norman, So What Does Guessing the Right Answer Out of Four Have to Do With
Competence Anyway? The Bar Examiner, p. 21 (Nov 2008). According to the
ABA MacCrate Report
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nine out of ten fundamental lawyer skills and virtues
necessary to practice law are not measured on a bar exam, including: problem
solving, legal research, factual investigation, communication, counseling,
negotiation, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, the organization and
management of legal work, and professional self-development. It also does not
measure a lawyers constitutional duty to champion locally unpopular causes and
vindicate federal rights.
59. Today, in order for a licensing test to be widely accepted it has to satisfy
two standards. The test has to be valid and reliable. Validity is concerned with the
test measuring the necessary purpose for the test. For example, if you are going to

12
Robert MacCrate is the distinguished former chairman of the ABA's Task Force
on Law Schools and the Profession (1992).

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test for AIDS the test has to validly measure AIDS. Reliability is concerned with
repeatability of test results, as in any scientific study. The ABA has concluded bar
exams for experienced attorneys are not a valid or reliable measurement of
attorney competence. It is not a valid test because it does not test nine out of ten
fundamental lawyering skills. It is not a reliable test because it is nearly
impossible to get graders to agree on subjective test scores.
60. A prior restraint involves a licensing provision that gives an official
unbridled discretion to prohibit speech. See City of Lakewood v. Plain Dealer
Pub. Co., 486 U.S. 750, 757 (1988). The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20,
incorporating the findings of other experts has recognized that if the purpose of a
bar exam is to test minimum competence for a new practitioner. Already licensed
attorneys in good standing have already demonstrated both their competence, and
that they are not a threat to the public; entry level tests for already licensed
attorneys are an oxymoron. Hence, requiring experienced attorneys from
disfavored states to pass another licensing test, when that test is neither valid nor
reliable, is analogous to requiring blacks to take a literacy test in order to vote. It is
equivalent in this 21
st
Century to the licensing of printing presses in the 16
th
and
17
th
Centuries.
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D. NJ LCivR 101 Constitutes Compelled Association that Abridges
the First Amendment Right of Freedom of Association

61. The Court has recognized a right to associate for the purpose of
engaging in those activities protected by the First Amendment speech, assembly,
petition for the redress of grievances, and the exercise of religion. Roberts v.
United States Jaycees, 468 U.S. 609, 618 (1984). The Court has long recognized
that, because the Bill of Rights is designed to secure individual liberty, it must
afford the formation and preservation of certain kinds of highly personal
relationships a substantial measure of sanctuary from unjustified interference by
the State. Ibid. Moreover, the constitutional shelter afforded such relationships
reflects the realization that individuals draw much of their emotional enrichment
from close ties with others. Protecting these relationships from unwarranted state
interference therefore safeguards the ability to independently define one's identity
that is central to any concept of liberty. Ibid. An individual's freedom to speak, to
worship, and to petition the government for the redress of grievances could not be
vigorously protected from interference by the State unless a correlative freedom to
engage in a group effort toward those ends were not also guaranteed. Id. at 622.
Government actions that may unconstitutionally infringe upon this freedom can
take a number of forms. Among other things, government may seek to impose
penalties or withhold benefits from individuals because of their membership in a
disfavored group. Ibid.
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62. The right to associate also includes a right not to associate. Roberts v.
United States Jaycees, supra, 468 U.S. at 622. Here, as in Roberts, LCvR 83.8
(a)(2) imposes penalties and withholds privileges based solely on Plaintiffs
licensing in disfavored non-reciprocity jurisdictions. As such, the Defendants bear
the burden of proving the validity of the admission on motion rule, which it cannot
meet because the U.S. Supreme Court has already held that admission on motion is
a constitutionally protected Privilege and Immunity. Supreme Court of Virginia v.
Friedman, supra, 487 U.S. 59 (1998). The Supreme Court has held that the
location of a lawyer's office simply has nothing to do with his or her intellectual
ability or experience in litigating cases in Federal District Court. Therefore,
LCvR 101 is invalid as it abridges Plaintiffs right to associate, and their other First
Amendment rights.
E. LCivR 101 Violates the First Amendment Right to Petition

63. In Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc. v. Columbia Pictures
Industries, Inc., 508 U.S. 49 (1993), the Court in construing the right to petition
held that litigation could only be enjoined when it is a sham. To be a sham, first, it
must be objectively baseless in the sense that no reasonable litigant could expect
success on the merits; second, the litigants subjective motive must conceal an
attempt to interfere with the business relationship of a competitor through the
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use of government process as opposed to the outcome of that process as an
anti-competitive weapon. Id. at 60-61.
64. LCivR 101 violates the Petition Clause because it arbitrarily and
irrationally presumes that the Plaintiffs, and all experienced lawyers from 49 States
Supreme Courts and the District of Columbia will file sham petitions for an anti-
competitive purpose, and only file sham petitions for an anti-competitive purpose
unless they re-invent the wheel by taking and passing New Jerseys entry level bar
exam. There is no evidence that experienced attorneys in good standing from non-
reciprocity jurisdictions will violate their professional responsibilities, and file
sham petitions for an anti-competitive purpose. Moreover, it would be delusional
and irrational to believe that these experienced attorneys would violate their
professional responsibilities and sacrifice their good standing and reputation in the
states they are licensed.
65. The Supreme Court in the last twenty years has dramatically re-written
in this technologically advanced Age of Information the ambit of the First
Amendment protections. The whole point of the First Amendment is to protect
individual speech that the majority might prefer to restrict, or that legislators or
judges might not view as useful to the democratic process. See McCutcheon et al.
v. Federal Election, Supreme Court, docket 12-536 Slip Opinion p. 17 filed April
2, 2014 (holding restriction of aggregate limits on campaign contributions violates
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the First Amendment because they are not closely drawn to avoid unnecessary
abridgment of associational freedoms.) (emphasis added) If the First
Amendment protects flag burning, funeral protests, and Nazi paradesdespite the
profound offense such spectacles causeit surely protects political campaign
speech despite popular opposition. (Slip Opinion, p. 2)
66. Here, if the First Amendment protects unlimited campaign contributions,
corporate speech, flag burning, funeral protests during burials for American
soldiers killed in the line of duty in Iraq, Nazi parades, dog fighting videos,
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deliberate lies about winning the Medal of Honor,
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it also protects Plaintiffs
association and petition rights that are abridged by the challenged Federal District
Court bar admission segregation.
FOURTH CAUSE OF ACTION
VIOLATION OF THE 5
TH
AMENDMENT
EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE

67. The preceding allegations and the allegations in the subsequent causes of
action are incorporated in this cause of action.
68. NJ LCivR 101(e) is plainly unlawful under Frazier v. Heebe because it is
based on the location of a lawyers office.

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United States v. Stevens, 130 S.Ct. 1577 (2010)
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Unted States v. Alvarez, , 567 U. S. ____, 132 S.Ct. 2537 (2012)
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69. It would be anomalous to hold Supreme Court Friedman precedent on
bar admission on motion is not equally relevant to federal bar admission that
incorporates state law under the 5
th
Amendment Equal Protection Clause.
70. In re Lockwood, 154 US 116 (1894), Belva A. Lockwood was admitted
to practise (sic) law in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and the bars
of several States of the Union. The Virginia Supreme Court rejected her
application for admission because she was a woman, citing In Bradwell v. The
State, 16 Wall. 130 (1873), where the Supreme Court held that the right to
practise (sic) law in the state courts was not a privilege or immunity of a citizen of
the United States.
71. In 1873, in Bradwell, a woman was denied the right to practice law by
the State of Illinois. A concurring opinion emphasized,
The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfil (sic) the noble
and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator. And
the rules of civil society must be adapted to the general constitution of
things, and cannot be based upon exceptional cases. Id. 141-42

72. Lockwood and Bradwell are obviously antiquated, but they show the
history of our law.
73. In the seminal case Supreme Court of New Hampshire v. Piper, 470
U.S. 274 (1985), the Supreme Court held,
The lawyer's role in the national economy is not the only reason that the
opportunity to practice law should be considered a "fundamental right." We
believe that the legal profession has a noncommercial role and duty that
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reinforce the view that the practice of law falls within the ambit of the
Privileges and Immunities Clause.[fn11] Out-of-state lawyers may and
often do represent persons who raise unpopular federal claims. In some
cases, representation by nonresident counsel may be the only means
available for the vindication of federal rights. Id. at 281-82.

74. Piper recognizes there is no First Amendment difference between the
constitutional duty of a lawyer to petition and a newspaper to publish.
75. More particularly, Supreme Court of Virginia v. Friedman, 487 U.S. 59
(1988) squarely holds that bar admission on motion for sister-state attorneys is a
constitutionally protected Privilege and Immunity. Virginia argued Ms. Friedman
could take the bar examination, and thus, the Clause was not offended. The Court
rejected this contention stating, The issue instead is whether the State has
burdened the right to practice law, a privilege protected by the Privileges and
Immunities Clause, by discriminating among otherwise equally qualified
applicants solely on the basis of citizenship or residency. We conclude it has. Id.
at 67. The norm under the Privileges and Immunities Clause is comity, i.e. equal
treatment. The Supreme Court stated, we see no reason to assume that
nonresident attorneys who, like Friedman, seek admission to the Virginia bar on
motion will lack adequate incentives to remain abreast of changes in the law or to
fulfill their civic duties. Id. at 69.
76. As in Friedman, LCivR 101 discriminates among otherwise equally
qualified sister-state attorneys in bar admission on motion, and it is thus
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unconstitutional. LCvR 101 further offends the constitution because it provides the
Plaintiffs in this 21
st
Century the same archaic privileges provided to blacks and
women LCivR 101(a) is plainly unlawful because it undermines both Friedmans
holding admission on motion is constitutionally protected and the ABAs
recommendations for reciprocity. The ABA Commissions were composed of
experts who carefully studied the issue, and they also relied on other experts in
formulating their conclusions. There is no evidence the ABA in formulating its
expert opinion got it wrong.
A. RATIONAL BASIS REVIEW
77. Plaintiffs aver LCivR 101 violates the Fifth Amendment Equal
Protection Clause even under a rational basis standard of review.
78. LCivR 101 on its face grants a monopoly on the exercise of
constitutional rights. Monopolies in the opportunity to exercise constitutional
rights are per se unlawful.
79. A State can require high standards of qualification, such as good moral
character or proficiency in its law, before it admits an applicant to the bar, but any
qualification must have a rational connection with the applicant's fitness or
capacity to practice law. Schumacher, 965 F.2d at 1269, citing Schware v. Board
of Bar Examiners, 353 U.S. 232, 239 (1957). The ABA and UBEC have carefully
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studied this issue, concluding the failure to have reciprocal bar admission injures
the public, recommending reciprocal admission for all attorneys.
80. In this light, there is no rational connection between bar admission in
New Jersey and many of exclusive areas of federal practice that have nothing to do
with New Jersey state law: i.e., patent law, federal criminal law and procedure,
federal civil procedure, bankruptcy, federal taxation, admiralty, etc.
81. The Third Circuit has recognized, We can discern no reason why, as a
general matter, experienced graduates of unaccredited law schools from reciprocal
states would be more competent to practice law than experienced graduates of
unaccredited law schools from nonreciprocal states. Schumacher v. Nix, supra,
965 F. 2d 1262, 1270 footnote 11 (3
rd
Cir. 1992) Thus, under Third Circuit law
there is no rational reason to exclude Plaintiffs, and otherwise qualified ABA
graduates and attorneys, from 49 States and the District of Columbia from federal
admission.
82. Our Union was founded on the principle of No taxation without
representation. Local Rule 101 denies Plaintiffs the opportunity to represent their
clients and to petition for redress of grievances in the US District Court in New
Jersey that Plaintiffs pay for with their tax dollars.
83. Rule 101 has the practical effect of targeting a locally unpopular group.
Targeting an unpopular class is not rational. It is beyond cavil that it is
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constitutionally prohibited to single out and disadvantage an unpopular group.
United States v. Windsor, __ U.S. __, 133 S.Ct. 2675 (2013). In Romer v. Evans,
517 U.S. 620 (1996), the Court held that an amendment to a state constitution,
ostensibly just prohibiting any special protections for gay people, in truth violated
the Equal Protection Clause, under even a rational basis analysis. In Romer, the
Supreme Court struck down Colorados Constitutional Amendment 2 because, the
Court held, [w]e cannot say that Amendment 2 is directed to any identifiable
legitimate purpose or discrete objective. It is a status-based enactment divorced
from any factual context from which we could discern a relationship to legitimate
state interests; it is a classification of persons undertaken for its own sake,
something the Equal Protection Clause does not permit. Id. at 635. The Supreme
Court deemed this class legislation ... obnoxious to the prohibitions of the
Fourteenth Amendment. Ibid.
84. LCivR 101, similar to the laws targeting gays and lesbians, is obnoxious
status-based rule making enacted to target an unpopular group, otherwise qualified
lawyers not admitted in the Garden State. This is discrimination for the sake of
discrimination, and not a legitimate governmental interest.
85. If by law, a layman is presumed to know the law, or can presumptively
find it, and is presumptively capable of representing herself a fortiori an
experienced licensed attorney can do the same. The hypothesis that a layman is
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presumptively competent, while on the other hand, an experienced lawyer is
presumptively incompetent is implausible and irrational.
86. Plaintiffs assert their right to injunctive and declaratory relief under 28
U.S.C. 2201. There is an actual controversy of sufficient immediacy and
concreteness relating to the legal rights of the Plaintiffs and their injury, and their
relation to and the duties of the Defendants, to warrant relief under 28 U.S.C.
2201.
87. Plaintiffs therefore request the following relief:
An Order declaring LCivR 101(a) & (e) unconstitutional and
enjoining their enforcement.
An Order declaring that District Court Local Rules shall
provide the opportunity for general bar admission privileges to all sister-
state attorneys admitted to the highest court of any state.
An Order admitting Plaintiffs to the bar of the District Court.
Costs.
Attorney fees.
Grant such other relief as may be just and proper.
Dated: June 9, 2014
/s/ Joseph Robert Giannini
Joseph Robert Giannini, Esq.
Attorney for Plaintiffs NAAMJP et. al.
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