This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

California Supreme Court,
State Bar & Bar Associations

Nov. 14, 2019

State Bar executives bristle at Supreme Court oversight, report finds

An investigation for the state Supreme Court said the premature disclosure of topics was ‘inadvertent human error’

After a leak, the State Bar did not involve the California Supreme Court in its decision to notify July bar exam test-takers of the topics, according to the court’s investigative report released Wednesday.

The investigation found the bar also left unanswered for several hours questions about the unprecedented topics snafu raised by the principal attorney to Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye prior to the agency alerting test-taker...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up