Three attorneys behind a spate of fraud class actions targeting law schools made the case yesterday that a trial judge who attended one of the schools being sued cannot be impartial.
The lawyers argued yesterday that Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice David Schmidt (See Profile) should recuse himself from the case they filed against Brooklyn Law School on behalf of five recent graduates. Schmidt graduated in 1982 from Brooklyn Lawlocated just spitting distance from the courthouse.
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