The judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently voted to end rules that limit certain out-of-state lawyers from waiving in to the court’s bar.

Under the court’s original admission rules, lawyers from other states could only waive in if they belonged to another federal court bar that allowed members of the Washington federal district court to waive in. The D.C. court was sued over the reciprocity rules last year by the National Association for the Advancement of Multijurisdiction Practice, which claimed it was discriminatory.

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