ABA Gives an Inch in Accreditation Fight with Florida Coastal Law
The troubled law school was premature in asking a judge to intervene in its accreditation fight with the American Bar Association, according to a new court filing from the ABA.
June 26, 2018 at 02:26 PM
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motion in opposition temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction
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denied the temporary restraining order wave of litigation
- The school's first-time bar pass rate in Florida plummeted from 76 percent in 2012 to 42.5 percent in July 2017.
- Academic attrition of first-year students more than doubled during that time, from 5 percent in 2013 to nearly 24 percent in 2015.
- Despite increasing its 25th percentile LSAT to 145 in 2017, 30 percent of the first-year students admitted in the fall of 2017 were academically dismissed.
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