A federal district court in Tallahassee held that a rule—in which an attorney seeking admission to the Florida Bar has a higher application fee because he was previously admitted in another state for more than a year—does not, in practical effect, violate the dormant commerce clause in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
And in doing so, U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor of the Northern District of Florida partially denied the summary judgment motion of the plaintiff, David Drwencke, a partner at DRD Law in Chicago, who has been previously admitted in three other jurisdictions for more than a year and sued the defendant, the Florida Board of Bar Examiners.
