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7 Jul, 2007 8:49 am
... violations. In his pro se complaint, Plaintiff Stephen Dunne seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions barring the defendants from considering the question in regard to his
application to practice law and from enforcing the question in the current ... spokeswoman said the court couldn't comment on pending cases. William F. Kennedy, the chairman of the
Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners, which administers the test, also declined to comment. "The complaint is being reviewed, we have no comment ...
26 Jun 4:52 am
... bar exam. Yeah, That's the Ticket!: Online Law School Grad Who Sued to Take Bar Gets His License
By Sheri Qualters | The National Law Journal BOSTON - An online law ... . Mitchell was sworn in on June 22 and has 90 days to register with the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, according to the court. Mitchell, a
Newton, Mass.-based independent computer ... ." Last November, Mitchell won his case against the state's Board of Bar Examiners, which denied his bid to bypass a requirement that U.S.-trained ...
24 Nov, 2008 12:45 am
MITCHELL vs. BOARD OF BAR EXAMINERS, SJC-10157. Decided
November 20, 2008. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has carved out an exception to the longstanding rule that only graduates ... of
legal education. _______________________________________________________________________________ The above information is provided by the Law Offices of Keith L. Miller, a Boston,
Massachusetts civil trial lawyer, specializing in the legal representation of individuals who have been involved in all types ...
24 Jun 5:18 am
... is now a newly minted Massachusetts lawyer. Ross E. Mitchell is the first Massachusetts lawyer
with an exclusively online legal education. Last November, Mitchell won his case against the state's Board of Bar Examiners, which denied his bid to bypass a requirement that U.S.-trained applicants be graduates of an American
Bar Association-accredited law school. The court allowed Mitchell to sit for the bar because the ABA
is mulling ...
29 Jun 1:15 am
... and Massachusetts) have received past exams up to February 2008. To see what years are available for a particular state, search the Duke
Libraries catalog for the subject keywords bar examinations ... Maryland. Many states also make past exams available for free on their
bar exam websites, such as New York's page of Past Exam Questions. ... .org] to locate the Board of
Law Examiners site for your state. Day 2: MBE & The Bar Exam Experience To help prepare for the
Multistate Bar Examination portion ...
1 Jul, 2007 12:24 am
... that he recently failed. This week's National Law Journal reports that Stephen Dunne has filed suit in a Massachusetts federal court
claiming that he would have passed if bar examiners had ignored his failure to answer an essay
question on gay marriage. He alleges that answering the ... in the suit that he has filed pro se. UPDATE: Here is the full text of the complaint in Dunne v. Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners. [Thanks to Dispatches From the Culture Wars for posting it.]
11 Sep, 2007 1:08 am
Law school graduate Stephen Dunn who challenged the February Massachusetts bar exam in federal court
on Free Exercise grounds has now filed a motion asking the court to dismiss his lawsuit. (Full text of motion to ... bar examinations.
Defendants maintain that the question to which Plaintiff objects was a legitimate question regarding the current state of law in the Commonwealth. The Board of Bar Examiners maintains its right to test bar applicants on that same subject matter in future examinations.
10 Jan, 2008 10:35 am
... callous and diametrically opposed to America's core principles of freedom and equality." Dunne filed a federal lawsuit in June against the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners and Supreme Judicial Court, seeking to prohibit the gay marriage question from being used to compute his bar exam score and from being included on future exams. He argued that answering the "patently offensive and morally repugnant" question, which involved a ...
3 Jul, 2007 11:04 am
Memo to all the recent law school grads studying for the bar exam: July Fourth means it's crunch time. If you need extra motivation, just think
how ... ! That's what happened to Stephen Dunne, who narrowly failed the Massachusetts bar exam and
is now suing the Board of Bar Examiners, claiming that one
of the questions he missed violated his First ... Lavi Soloway has the scoop: Dunne claims his score of 268.866 on the November 2006 bar exam
just missed the passing score of 270 points because he didn't ...
1 Dec, 2008 8:44 am
In Mitchell v. Board of Bar Examiners, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that Ross E. Mitchell is entitled to a waiver of the state's rule that bar
exam applicants must be graduates of accredited law schools. Writing for the...
13 Jul, 2007 7:56 am
Last week we brought you news of Stephen Dunne, the would-be Massachusetts lawyer who's suing the state Board of Bar Examiners, claiming that he failed the bar exam because one of the questions violated his First Amendment rights by requiring him to approve of gay marriage. As was noted here in Non Sequiturs
yesterday, another blog reported that Dunne has amended his complaint to reduce damages claim from $9,750,000.00 to ...
7 Apr, 2008 1:51 pm
... . Ohio officials stand by the procedure. The state was expected to counter with expert witness Dr. Mark Dershwitz, an anesthesiologist from Massachusetts, who will testify via video conference Tuesday. Some recent related posts: New study confirms we do not treat ... Lethal injection complaints
going to the dogs A great animal irony in the Baze oral argument Should medical boards be able to bar doctor involvement in executions?
My debatable PENNumbra views on Baze Can doctors block all US lethal ...
13 Jul 12:56 pm
... is, but it requires him to travel frequently between California and his home in Massachusetts. He decided he wanted to get a law degree to
enhance what he could offer ... who have passed the California bar to sit for their bar exams, but
Massachusetts is not one of them. The Mass. Board of Bar
Examiners requires that bar takers have a ... Or maybe they won't have to. As we have mentioned
before, the American Bar Association is in the midst of reviewing law school accreditation. Not only are they putting a ...
16 Apr 6:35 am
... . The state should adopt a law which would allow residents to take the bar examination after a prescribed apprenticeship without
having to attend law school. The Univeristy of Massachusetts would establish a law department which would provide support, guidance and ...
outside a classroom. They must study four years under a sponsoring attorney, and file progress reports with the Board of Bar Examiners twice a year. EXCERPT FROM OCTOBER 23, 1996 LETTER FROM RONALD FOX TO MS. KATHLEEN BURGE You wrote ...
25 Jun 1:29 am
... 's bar examination is now a newly minted Massachusetts lawyer. Last November, Ross
Mitchell won his case against the state's Board of Bar Examiners, which denied his bid to bypass a requirement that U.S.-trained applicants be graduates of ... aftermath of the June 12 election. The NLJ spoke with
P. Patrick Ashouri, a member of the association's board of directors and a principal at Ashouri Law Offices in Mission Hills, Calif., about the
proposed commission." California's ...
5 Jul, 2007 3:59 pm
A recent bar examinee in Massachusetts failed the test and sued the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners. The reason? He refused to answer a question that would have forced him to acknowledge the recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's opinion in Goodridge, the decision that granted same-sex couples the right to marry. The plaintiff claims that the
question required him to "affirmatively accept ...
11 Oct, 2007 12:58 am
... Over Bar Exam's Gay-Marriage Question The National Law Journal The federal court battle over a Massachusetts bar examination question about homosexual marriage has ended with the court accepting the
plaintiff's voluntary dismissal of the case. ... future examinees "will not be forced to accept, support or promote a liberal ideology on a professional licensing examination."
The state board of bar examiners said they have not agreed
to limit the content of future exams. Gonzales Hires Defense Lawyer ...
10 Jun, 2008 8:47 am
... Court denied the Husson College School of Law Petition to allow its prospective graduates to sit for the Maine State Bar
Examination. The Court identified three major defects in the Petition at this time, but did not foreclose the possibility ... alternative to ABA accreditation, more than mere
NESC accrediation, as a baseline requirement. Cf. Massachusetts School of Law review by the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education (specifically reviewing the level and quality of instruction, ...
23 May, 2007 12:19 pm
Eventually I got my paperwork in, and the New York Board of Bar Examiners said I could get sworn in today. Which I did. I flew into Newark last night, ... January and June are the biggest when they do most of the
candidates from the previously administered bar exams). At these admission sessions they assemble all the applicants into clumps of ... drive
the previous day up from Secaucus to Albany and now the trip across Massachusetts, it kind of felt like I was doing the last week of last July
all over ...
25 Jun 12:30 pm
... win permission to take the bar exam in a state outside California. Well, now he has made history again. As we reported in November, when
Mitchell first applied to take the Massachusetts exam, he was turned down, based on the state's rule that applicants be graduates of law
schools accredited by the American Bar Association. He sued the state Board of Bar Examiners, contending that the rule was...
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