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Ruling allows council to 'flag' disabled Law School Admission Test takers

February 4, 2013

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The counsel is defending a separate federal class action brought last spring by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing on behalf of disabled LSAT takers. That suit alleges the council's policies violate the Americans With Disabilities Act.

A federal judge in October allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to intervene in the suit. The same judge ruled on January 29 that the Justice Department could bring claims for plaintiffs outside of California, making the lawsuit national in scope.

Contact Karen Sloan at ksloan@alm.com.

 

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  • ColorBlindJustice

    February 05, 2013 08:41 AM

    What future legal client (or medical patient) would seek help from a lawyer (or doctor) who, for whatever reasons, can't read, think and act under pressure as quickly and efficiently as other lawyers (or doctors)? Our politically correct world has truly gone mad when we're bending over backwards to encourage young people with serious disabilities to take on crippling law school debt and then almost surely fail to find meaningful, much less profitable, work as a lawyer thereafter -- simply so we can feel good about ourselves as "anti-discrimination champions" of "diversity." What's next, a law that demands college basketball teams give short, fat, slow guys who can't shoot some extra time to run wind-sprints during tryouts?

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