France Faces Scrutiny of South Pacific Nuclear Tests
The International Criminal Court is examining a complaint filed against France over its past program of nuclear tests in the South Pacific, Courthouse News has confirmed.
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Tokyo Med School Said to Alter Test Results to Fail Women
A Tokyo medical university faced a new allegation after a newspaper report Thursday that the school has allegedly discriminated against female applicants on grounds they tend to quit as doctors after starting families, causing staffing shortages.
Read moreMagistrate Decries Second Civic Exam for Divorced Immigrants
An EU magistrate chided the Netherlands on Wednesday for testing divorced immigrants on civic integration before giving them autonomous residence permits.
Read moreDC Health Lab Assailed on Zika Testing Gaffes
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 moreACLU Pushes for for Dismissals in Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal
Just 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 morePee Tests for Teachers Violate Civil Rights
Agreeing with a nursery school, a federal judge ruled Thursday that the District of Columbia’s random drug screening policy violates teachers’ civil rights.
Read moreMassachusetts Primes for Dismissal of Thousands of Drug Cases
The 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 moreSan Diego Struggles With 558 Untested Rape Kits
The 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 moreChicago Cop Says Promotion Exam Was Rigged for Police Wives
Accusing 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 moreNursing Students Accuse Excelsior College of Fraud
Aspiring nurses from around the country brought a federal class action for deceptive trade practices Thursday against Excelsior College.
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California High Court Leaves Bar Exam Pass Score Untouched
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 moreTeachers Union Fights ‘Watered-Down’ Charter Standards
Emphasizing 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 moreHigh School Exit Exam Ditched in California
California 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 moreBar-Prep Conspiracy Suit Unravels in NYC
A 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 moreMass. High Court Says Field Sobriety Tests Don’t Work for Marijuana
Massachusetts’ 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 moreACLU Calls Thousands of Massachusetts Drug Cases Tainted
On 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 moreCalifornia State Bar Punts Final Decision on Bar Exam Standards
The 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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Bar Examiners Recommend No Change to California Standards
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 moreCalifornia Law School Deans Lobby for Lower Bar Exam Standards
The 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 moreCalifornia Inches Toward Lowering Bar-Exam Standards
The 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.
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