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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE #025 FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

The Opinions handed down on the 5th day of May, 2009, are as follows:

PER CURIAM:

2006-OB-2387

IN RE: BRIAN D. FERGUSON (Committee on Bar Admissions) Guidry, J., on panel; Calogero C. J., retired, recused. Accordingly, it is ordered that the application for admission be and hereby is denied. ADMISSION DENIED. JOHNSON, J., dissents and assigns reasons. KNOLL, J., dissents with reasons. WEIMER, J., dissents and assigns reasons.

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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 06-OB-2387 IN RE: BRIAN D. FERGUSON

ON APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE BAR

PER CURIAM*
The Committee on Bar Admissions ("Committee") opposed the application of petitioner, Brian D. Ferguson, to sit for the Louisiana Bar Examination based on character and fitness concerns. In its correspondence to petitioner, the Committee cited two issues, specifically, petitioner's delinquent credit accounts and a stipulated judgment rendered against him on a petition for domestic abuse protection filed by his former wife. We subsequently granted petitioner permission to sit for the bar exam, with the condition that upon his successful completion of the exam, he apply to the court for the appointment of a commissioner to take character and fitness evidence. In re: Ferguson, 05-0918 (La. 5/6/05), 901 So. 2d 1079. Petitioner thereafter successfully passed the essay portion of the bar exam, and upon his application, we appointed a commissioner to take evidence and report to this court whether petitioner possesses the appropriate character and fitness to be admitted to the bar and allowed to practice law in the State of Louisiana. We also authorized the Office of Disciplinary Counsel ("ODC") to conduct an investigation into petitioner's qualifications to be admitted to the bar. The commissioner conducted a character and fitness hearing in June 2008, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule XVII,

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