After taking public comments for almost three hours Monday, California’s committee of bar examiners retreated behind closed doors to consider the fate of the July bar exam as COVID-19 spreads across the United States.

The committee was not expected to emerge from closed session to immediately announce a decision despite the public pleas from more than 50 people, many of them graduating law school students, to grant diploma privilege and allow them to practice law without having taken the bar exam.

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