The payment settles a lawsuit alleging the organization, the Law School Admissions Counsel, systemically violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by routinely denying applicants’ accommodation requests even in cases where applicants had a permanent physical disability or had been afforded such testing accommodations since elementary school.
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LSAT Admin Pays Millions to Disabled Applicants
The organization that administers the law school admissions test will pay $7.73 million to compensate the more than 6,000 individuals who requested accommodation for their disabilities during the last five years but were denied. So reports The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog.
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