Two separate groups, one led by law school students and the other by deans, are urging the Supreme Court of California to cancel in-person bar exams due to Covid-19 for the remainder of 2020, but without a consensus for what comes next in that state and beyond.
The California coalitions agree that the exam currently scheduled for July 28-29 shouldn’t merely be delayed until September, which was recently recommended as a “preferred option” by the state bar’s board of trustees, but rather dashed altogether because of lingering virus-related public health dangers.
Beyond that, their perspectives diverge.
A group of deans ...