In Re: Hankins

* Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that
this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except
under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.
United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
F I L E D
November 17, 2005
Charles R. Fulbruge III
Clerk
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 04-11003
Summary Calendar
IN RE: APPLICATION OF GROVER
G. HANKINS FOR ADMISSION TO
THE BAR OF THE UNITED STATES
DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN
DISTRICT OF TEXAS,
GROVER C. HANKINS
Appellant,
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Texas
4:04-MC-10-A
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Before JONES, WIENER, and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
Appellant Grover G. Hankins appeals an order filed July 19,
2004 by Honorable John McBryde, United States District Judge, on
behalf of the judges of the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Texas, denying Hankins’s application for
admission to the Bar of that court. This order issued after
Hankins failed to comply with a May 25, 2004 order of the court
requiring submission of specified information regarding old State
Bar grievances, even though, following that earlier order, Hankins

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had submitted a May 28, 2004 certificate from the Office of the
Chief Disciplinary Counsel of the State Bar of Texas listing eleven
purported grievances that the State Bar had dismissed as lacking
merit. The certificate further stated that Hankins “is currently
active and in good standing with the State Bar of Texas. There has
been no disciplinary action involving professional misconduct taken
against Mr. Hankins’ [sic] law license.” The district court’s
order of July 19, 2004 denied Hankins’s application for admission
because Hankins had failed to “draw[] on his memory for the
details” of the grievances filed against him a number of years
earlier.
In light of the contents of the certificate from the State Bar
of Texas issued and filed less than a month before the district
court’s order denying the admission of Hankins to the Bar of the
Northern District of Texas, and mindful of the persisting effects
of denial of admission to any bar on the professional reputation
and practice of an attorney-at-law otherwise licensed and in good
standing with the state bar in which the federal district court is
located, we are constrained to reverse the order appealed from and
to remand this matter to the Chief Judge and judges of the district
court of the Northern District of Texas with instructions to notify
Hankins that he shall be allowed a reasonable time of not less than
thirty (30) days within which to file a new application for
admission to the Bar of the district court, which application if
timely filed shall be considered de novo in the discretion of the

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Chief Judge or such judge or judges of that court as the Chief
Judge may designate, and either denied with written reasons or
granted.
REVERSED and REMANDED with instructions.

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