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[Sherri]

Law School Admission Council to Implement Sweeping Changes to Testing 
Accommodation Procedures For Test-Takers with DisabilitiesVery good news 
hopefully for all blind people wishing to take the LSAT test.

Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: U.S. Department of Justice
To: flmom2006 at gmail.com
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 1:02 PM
Subject: Law School Admission Council to Implement Sweeping Changes to 
Testing Accommodation Procedures For Test-Takers with Disabilities


On August 7, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of 
California upheld significant changes to LSAC's testing accommodation 
policies and practices. The court's decision upheld almost all the changes 
to LSAC's testing accommodation procedures recommended in a report by a 
panel of experts created pursuant to a 2014 consent decree that resolved 
allegations under the Americans with Disabilities Act in Dept. of Fair 
Employment & Housing (DFEH) v. Law School Admission Council, Inc. (LSAC), 
Case No. 12-1830--EMC (N. D. Cal). The District Court invalidated a limited 
portion of the recommendations (generally regarding timing for evaluating 
testing accommodation requests and how recent documentation in support of a 
request for testing accommodations based on mental or cognitive impairment 
must be) but upheld the bulk of the recommendations as written, including 
those that: categorize the type of documentation that will be sufficient for 
various types of testing accommodations requests, establish criteria for 
evaluating requests, require an automatic review by outside professionals 
before any request may be denied, and create an appeals process for those 
candidates whose testing accommodation requests are ultimately denied. LSAC 
will implement the upheld recommendations starting immediately for testing 
accommodation requests related to the December 2015 LSAT administration and 
later administrations.

For more information about the Court's decision in DFEH v. LSAC or the ADA, 
please visit our ADA website at http://www.ada.gov/ or you may also call the 
Justice Department's toll-free ADA Information Line at 800-514-0301 or 
800-514-0383 (TDD).


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