Senate supports 125-year-old bar application

As noted, some UC Davis law students are seeking to have the Supreme Court reconsider its 1890, race-based denial of Hong Yen Chang’s bar admission application (In re Hong Yen Chang (1890) 84 Cal. 163).  The effort got a boost yesterday from the California State Senate which unanimously approved a resolution calling for “Mr. Hong Yen Chang’s admittance to the State Bar of California posthumously to remedy the injustice he suffered and to send a powerful message about the legal profession’s commitment to justice, diversity, and inclusion.”