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Constitutional Law

Mar. 31, 2010

Judge Blocks Request for Bar Data

A San Francisco judge ruled that State Bar data requested by a UCLA professor for a study on minorities in the law does not qualify as a public record.

By Amy Yarbrough

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has quashed a UCLA professor's efforts to obtain State Bar applicant data for a study on minorities in the law, finding the information does not qualify as a public record.

In a decision filed March 24, San Francisco County Judge Curtis Karnow wrote that the bar exam data Professor Richard Sander requested - including applicants' race an...

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