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Michigan man files petition in US Supreme Court over Law School Admission Test

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The so-called “logic games” section of the Law School Admission Test puts blind students at a disadvantage. That is the argument of a Michigan man who filed a petition with the United States Supreme Court.

Angelo Binno , who is blind from birth, was rejected by every law school he applied to for low scores on his admission test. Binno  says visually impaired students are at a disadvantage with the test.

       He wants law schools to be allowed to waive the L-SAT.

Right now law schools potentially face sanctions if they waive the L-SAT or a similar test.

       Jason Turkish is Binno’s attorney. He says the problem is spatial reasoning and diagramming needed to do a quarter of the exam.

 

“The American Bar Association forces this young man to litigate all the way to the United States Supreme Court to prove that a blind person shouldn’t draw a picture.”

       The American Bar Association has said in the past that they are the wrong organization to be sued in this case.