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Gordon v. State Bar of California: Test Takers with Disabilities Sue State Bar of California for Forcing Them to Test In-Person During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2021

Olivia Meadows
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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 138 - 143
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References

1 Complaint at 1, Gordon v. State Bar of California, No. 20-CV-06442-LB, 2020 WL 5816580, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 30, 2020) [hereinafter Complaint].

2 Gordon v. State Bar of California, No. 20-CV-06442-LB, 2020 WL 5816580, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 30, 2020).

3 Id. at 2.

4 Complaint, supra note 1, at 3.

5 Id. at 5.

6 Id.

7 Id.

8 Id.

9 Id.

10 Id. at 3.

11 Id.

12 Id. at 14.

13 Id.

14 Id. at 2.

15 Id. at 6.

16 Id. at 12-14.

17 State Bar of California, Requesting Testing Accommodations, http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Admissions/Examinations/Requesting-Testing-Accommodations

(last visited Feb. 6, 2021) [https://perma.cc/78AP-WA86].

18 Letter from California Supreme Court to California State Bar News Release, Merrill Balassone, California Supreme Court Orders Bar Exam Delayed, Administered Online (Apr. 27, 2020), https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-supreme-court-orders-bar-exam-delayed-administered-online [ https://perma.cc/56QN-WNAL].

19 Gordon, 2020 WL 5816580, at *1.

20 Complaint, supra note 1, at 2-4.

21 State Bar of California, February 2021 Bar Exam FAQs (Sept. 10, 2020), https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/admissions/Examinations/February-2021-Bar-Exam-FAQs.pdf (last visited Feb. 6, 2021) [ https://perma.cc/NE4F-MQ5M].

22 See Complaint, supra note 1, at 3.

23 Id. at 2.

24 Id. at 11.

25 Id. at 12.

26 Id.

27 Id. at 3.

28 Id.

29 Ctr. for Disease Control and Prevention, Coronavirus Disease 2019 Case Surveillance – United States, January 22 – May 30, 2020, MMWR (2020), https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6924e2.htm?s_cid=mm6924e2_w [https://perma.cc/V887-MW5Q].

30 Gordon, 2020 WL 5816580, at *4.

31 Id.

32 Id.

33 Id.

34 Id. at 1.

35 Id.

36 Id.

37 Id.

38 Complaint, supra note 1, at 12-14.

39 Id.

40 See Winter v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc., 555 U.S. 7, 20 (2008).

41 42 U.S.C. § 12131 (2)(c) (2020).

42 28 C.F.R. § 35.130(b)(7) (2020).

43 Gordon, 2020 WL 5816580, at *6.

44 See Lovell v. Chandler, 303 F.3d 1039, 1057 (9th Cir. 2002) (holding policy is facially discriminatory where ordinances in those cases target disabled persons receiving treatment for drug addiction).

45 Gordon, 2020 WL 5816580, at *7.

46 Id.

47 Id.

48 Id. at 6.

49 28 C.F.R. § 35.164 (2020).

50 Gordon, 2020 WL 5816580, at *8.

51 Id.

52 Id.

53 Id. at 7.

54 Id. at 8.

55 Id.

56 Id.

57 Id. at 10.

58 Id. at 2.

59 Brief for Peter Blanck, Ph.D., J.D., as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs, Gordon v. State Bar of California, No. 20-CV-06442-LB, 2020 WL 5816580 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 30, 2020).

60 Cal. Civ. Code § 51 (West 2020) (“All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their … disability … status are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever”).

61 Brief for Peter Blanck., Ph.D, J.D., as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs, supra note 59.

62 Gordon, 2020 WL 5816580, at *10.

63 Blanck, Peter, Thirty Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act: Law Students and Lawyers As Plaintiffs and Advocates, 45 Harbinger 8, 20 (2021).Google Scholar

64 Bill Wichert, Grads With Disabilities Left 'Forgotten' In Remote Bar Exams, Law360 (Oct. 2, 2020, 8:18 PM) https://www.law360.com/articles/1316429/grads-with-disabilities-left-forgotten-in-remote-bar-exams [https://perma.cc/9UHL-QL6R].

65 Id.

66 Gordon, 2020 WL 5816580, at *10.