A federal judge has tentatively dismissed a Southern California law school’s challenge to a new state regulation that requires accredited institutions to post the bar examination pass rates of its graduates.
U.S. District Judge James Selna wrote that the requirement, part of new guidelines requiring the state’s accredited law schools to maintain a 40 percent bar passage rate, regulates commercial speech and, as such, does not violate the free speech rights of the Southern California Institute of Law.
