Section 6064 - Certificate of admission

1 Analyses of this statute by attorneys

  1. Landmark California Supreme Court Ruling Holds Qualified Undocumented Immigrants Eligible for Law Licenses

    Sedgwick NewslettersDecember 1, 2014

    By the time thatRecorderarticle was published, García was already reaching out to members of the California Legislature, which, led by the Latino Legislative Caucus, enacted A.B. 1024 as a succinct and speedy answer to questions the court had raised on September 4. The bill amended California Business & Professions Code section 6064(b) to expressly authorize the California Supreme Court to issue a law license to “an applicant who is not lawfully present in the United States [who] has fulfilled the requirements for admission to practice law.” The new law quickly passed by a bipartisan landslide (29 to 5 in the Senate and 62 to 4 in the Assembly) and was delivered to Gov. Brown on September 26, 2013.