Weeks before her due date, Cassandra Forrester received word that she was positive for the Zika virus. The Maryland woman wants damages now from a public health lab that misinformed her months earlier she was negative.
Read moreJust weeks after winning the dismissal of more than 11,000 drug convictions, the ACLU called on the highest court in Massachusetts for additional dismissals and sanctions against the state Attorney General’s Office.
Read moreAgreeing with a nursery school, a federal judge ruled Thursday that the District of Columbia’s random drug screening policy violates teachers’ civil rights.
Read moreThe Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court set the stage Thursday for the state to dismiss, as soon as next week, thousands of drug convictions tainted by disgraced former chemist Sonja Farak.
Read moreThe San Diego police chief told the City Council on Tuesday that her department is wading through a backlog of 558 untested rape kits but will not test every kit in its crime lab, eschewing national standards.
Read moreAccusing Chicago police officials of helping their wives get undeserved promotions, an officer claims in a federal complaint that the top performer on a lieutenant’s examination ranked at an abysmal 280 when the test was last given. She’s married to the city’s first deputy superintendent.
Read moreAspiring nurses from around the country brought a federal class action for deceptive trade practices Thursday against Excelsior College.
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The California Supreme Court will not be lowering the minimum score necessary to pass the state bar exam, according to a letter sent to the bar’s president and executive director on Wednesday.
Read moreEmphasizing the much stricter standards to which New York holds its public school teachers, the state’s largest teachers union filed suit to vacate the “watered-down system” adopted this week for certifying educators in 167 charter schools.
Read moreCalifornia high school seniors have one less hurdle to leap before graduation near future, after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill eliminating the California High School Exit Exam.
Read moreA federal judge threw out sweeping conspiracy claims brought by a bar-exam preparation company against the industry juggernaut Barbri as well as 10 leading law schools.
Read moreMassachusetts’ highest court ruled this week that field sobriety tests are not good enough to determine whether a driver is too high on marijuana to be behind the wheel.
Read moreOn the heels of a sweeping order that dismissed 20,000 Massachusetts drug convictions tainted by evidence tampering, the state’s highest court now faces a call to do the same for thousands more cases handled by another disgraced chemist
Read moreThe State Bar of California voted narrowly to send the Golden State’s highest court a range of options regarding potential changes to the minimum score necessary to pass the bar exam.
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The California State Bar’s committee of bar examiners voted Thursday to recommend that the state Supreme Court keep the bar exam minimum passing score at 144.
Read moreThe bar exam is a poor measure of a lawyer’s competence, law school deans told California State Bar officials on Tuesday at a public comment session regarding whether to adopt a lower passing score.
Read moreThe State Bar of California on Monday voted to release a study that proposes lowering the minimum passing score for the bar exam by three points, from 144 to 141.
Read moreMore than 500 Advanced Placement students in San Diego must retake their tests, a federal court judge ruled late Friday, after finding the College Board was correct in invalidating more than 800 tests because students sat too close together.
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