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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE #019 FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA The Opinions handed down on the 30th day of March, 2012, are as follows:

PER CURIAM: 2011-OB-0468 IN RE: DEBRA H. BRAUN e

Accordingly, it is ordered that the application for admission b and hereby is denied. JOHNSON, J., dissents. GUIDRY, J., dissents and would grant conditional admission.

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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 11-OB-0468 IN RE: DEBRA H. BRAUN

ON APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE BAR

PER CURIAM
Petitioner, Debra H. Braun,1 successfully passed the essay portion of the Louisiana Bar Examination. However, the Committee on Bar Admissions ("Committee") advised petitioner that it was unable to certify her for admission on character and fitness grounds, including (1) her failure to disclose a pending civil suit in a bankruptcy proceeding; (2) documentation from a hospice where she was formerly employed as a nurse which revealed adverse information concerning her separation of employment; and (3) misrepresentations she made to the Committee concerning the circumstances which led the hospice to terminate her employment. On petitioner's application to this court, we remanded this matter to the Committee on Bar Admissions Panel on Character and Fitness to conduct an investigation and appointed a commissioner to take character and fitness evidence. During the character and fitness hearing, the commissioner received documentary evidence and heard testimony given by petitioner and her witnesses. The commissioner also heard the testimony of the attorneys who represented petitioner in her bankruptcy proceeding and in the civil suit which she had failed to disclose, as well as testimony from petitioner's former employer. Following the proceedings, the commissioner filed his report with this court, recommending that petitioner be denied admission to the practice of law.

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Petitioner is now known as Debra Braun Harrison.

Petitioner objected to that recommendation, and oral argument was conducted before this court pursuant to Supreme Court Rule XVII,

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