Opinion
Argued May 31, 1967
Decided July 7, 1967
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department.
Aaron D. Bernstein and Robert A. Morse for appellant.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General ( Daniel M. Cohen and Samuel A. Hirshowitz of counsel), for respondent.
Burt Neuborne for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.
Order reversed, without costs, and matter remanded to the Appellate Division, Second Department, with instructions to conduct a hearing in accordance with the ruling in Willner v. Committee on Character ( 373 U.S. 96) on reasonable notice to appellant containing a plain and concise statement of the particular charges against her on account of which her character and fitness to practice law have been disapproved, with opportunity to her to be confronted by and to cross-examine the witnesses against her and that in default thereof she be admitted to the Bar.
Concur: Chief Judge FULD and Judges VAN VOORHIS, BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, KEATING and BREITEL.