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Jun 23, 2015
Judge Slapped with $2.2 Million Suit when Driveway Feud Turns Ugly

Justice Barbara Wilson of Southampton, NY is being sued by neighbor Tony Gugliotta for defamation. The story begins as a fairly standard argument over a shared driveway, a portion of which Judge Wilson claims is hers. While surveys show that the part of the driveway in question belongs to Mr. Gugliotta, Justice Wilson claims adverse

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Jun 18, 2015
Pro Stone-o: The Burgeoning Marijuana Legal Field

I typically break some unhappy news to my students on the first day of Blueprint courses. I teach in the Bay Area, after all, so the matter is highly pertinent. “…and, yes, I do recommend you lay off your sticky green habits while studying for the LSAT.” I’m not really in a position to pile

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May 29, 2014
LSAC’s Disability Discrimination Settlement: What it Means

We wrote at the beginning of the year about how, due to a ruling by California courts, LSAC could no longer disclose which scores were taken under accommodated testing conditions. The catch was that the ruling only applied to LSAT test-takers in California. Well, sound the trumpets and ring the bells, because that’s no longer

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Mar 15, 2014
A Look Back at a Weird Week in Court Cases

We here at Blueprint LSAT Prep like to keep you informed. And not just about law school admissions and LSAT stuff, but also the goings on in the world of law. Legal cases sometimes make their way into the news, usually because a famous person is involved, but sometimes, and this is pretty rare, no

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Jan 22, 2014
What California’s Ruling on Accommodated LSATs Means

A recent ruling by a California court could have wide-ranging implications for how LSAC reports the LSAT scores of people who receive testing accommodations. Since time immemorial, LSAC has offered accommodated LSAT testing for people with disabilities, but with a potential catch. If you receive such accommodations from LSAC, your LSAT score report will include

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Dec 31, 2013
SCOTUS 2013 – A Retrospective

With 2013 almost behind us, we bring you some of the more interesting Supreme Court decisions of the year. United States v. Windsor In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court held that same-sex spouses are entitled to the same federal benefits as heterosexual spouses in states that allow same-sex marriage. Writing for the majority, Justice

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Feb 01, 2013
Smart Lawyers to Blame for Stupid Product Warning Labels

It starts innocently enough. Business makes product. Customer uses product. Product does what it’s supposed to. Everybody’s happy. But then, the law of averages kicks in and the customer gets injured using the product. In fact, the customer gets injured in a way that the business could not possibly have anticipated. Since the business couldn’t

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Sep 13, 2012
LSAC Now on the Bad Side of the Justice Department

It seems that the U.S. Department of Justice is none too pleased with LSAC these days. Porque, you ask? For one, LSAC has been flagging the LSAT scores of those test takers who received special accommodations due to disabilities. Apparently, LSAC has also made it fairly onerous to receive such accommodations. In one case, the

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