Florida Moves Bar Exam Online Again Amid Spike in Covid-19 Cases

Nov. 18, 2020, 7:29 PM UTC

Florida in February will again hold its bar exam remotely to avoid exposing test-takers to the coronavirus, the state’s Supreme Court announced Wednesday as cases spiked in the state.

The court didn’t want to risk canceling an in-person test as it did in July amid a worrisome increase in Covid-19 cases. The seven-day moving average of new cases in Florida on Tuesday reached its highest level since mid-August, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“This decision is based on current COVID-19 infection rates, which are rising in almost every U.S. Jurisdiction,” court officials said in a statement ...

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