SAN FRANCISCO — Administrators of the Law School Admission Test have settled a disability discrimination suit with California and the U.S. Department of Justice, agreeing to pay $8.73 million in damages and to end a controversial practice of notifying law schools when students received extra time to complete the exam.
If approved, the consent decree filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California would resolve a 2012 suit initiated by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing. The suit claimed the Law School Admission Council, or LSAC, illegally “flagged” the scores of students who received disability accommodations when taking the LSAT and also made it particularly burdensome to receive disability accommodations in the first place. Later that year, the Justice Department joined the litigation, expanding the suit on behalf of test-takers nationwide.
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