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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jan. 6, 2011

Circuit Upholds Bar Exam Accomodation Ruling

A district court judge was right to grant a blind law school graduate special accommodations to take the bar exam, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ruled.


By Amy Yarbrough


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - A district court judge was right to grant a blind law school graduate special accommodations to take the bar exam, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ruled.


In its opinion, filed Tuesday, the panel sided 3-0 with U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of San Francisco, who granted Stephanie Enyart's motion for a preliminary injunction that allowed her to use special soft...

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