<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:18px">Landmark Agreement with Law School Admission Council to Settle Justice Department</span><span style="font-size:18px">'s Nationwide Disability Discrimina</span><span style="font-size:18px">tion Lawsuit</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>

</span></div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><br></div>The Justice Department filed a joint motion today for entry of a </span><a href="http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTQwNTIwLjMyMzUzMTcxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE0MDUyMC4zMjM1MzE3MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MDI5MDAxJmVtYWlsaWQ9dmFzcXVlekBzYmNjLmVkdSZ1c2VyaWQ9dmFzcXVlekBzYmNjLmVkdSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&100&&&http://www.ada.gov/defh_v_lsac/lsac_consentdecree.htm" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">landmark consent decree </a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to resolve allegations that the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) engaged in widespread and systemic discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  Under the proposed consent decree, LSAC will pay $7.73 million in penalties and damages to compensate well over 6,000 individuals nationwide who applied for testing accommodations on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) over the past five years.  The decree also requires comprehensive reforms to LSAC’s policies and ends its practice of “flagging,” or annotating, LSAT score reports for test takers with disabilities who receive extended time as an accommodation.  These reforms will impact tens of thousands of test takers with disabilities for years to come. </span><br>

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