Judge’s Ruling Protects Bar Applicants' Personal Information

• Jurisdiction: California,United States
• Citation: Vol. 12 No. 2016 Pg. 04
• Pages: 04
• Publication year: 2016

Judge’s Ruling Protects Bar Applicants' Personal Information No. 2016 #04 California Bar Journal December, 2016

Laura Ernde, Staff Writer.

The State Bar won’t be required to release bar applicants’ personal information – including race, law school grade-point average, LSAT and bar exam scores, a judge ruled last month.

The San Francisco County Superior Court ruling, which affirmed the bar’s decision to protect applicants’ individually identifiable personal information for privacy reasons, could put an end to eight years of litigation brought against the State Bar by UCLA law professor Richard Sander and others who sought 36 years of detailed information to conduct research on law school admissions practices.

“The bar is committed to protecting the individual privacy interests of all applicants who take the bar exam,” said...