Widener University School of Law graduates unable to find jobs in their profession can go forward with a suit charging they were misled about the school’s placement success rate.

Denying a motion to dismiss on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge William Walls in Newark found plausible the students’ claims that the school — in boasting that more than 90 percent of graduates found jobs within nine months — blurred the line between legal and nonlegal employment.

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