CA court allows disabled student to take bar
July 27th, 2009From the New York Times:
California’s Supreme Court has granted last-minute permission for a disabled student to take the bar exam, just a week after the state’s bar association told her that a registration snafu would prevent her from taking the test. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger intervened on her behalf.
A graduate of the law school at the University of California at Davis, Sara Granda had been told that her registration for the test was improper because it was not paid with a credit card. Granda lives on disability benefits and has no credit card, so her application was not processed.
Granda, who is paralyzed from the neck down, has said that she wants to pass the bar so that she can begin to support herself. “I want to work,” she said. “To have this hinge on something so trivial seems crazy.”
See also:
Let paralyzed grad take bar exam, Schwarzenegger says — CNN
Paralyzed UC Davis law grad says state bar is barrier to her career — Sacramento Bee
Sara Granda — smart, spirited and disabled — gets her law degree — Sacramento Bee
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