Legal Opinion
Fruchtman v. New York State Board of Law Examiners
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 23, 1982No. 82 Civ. 0292 (CBM)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOTLEY, District Judge.
This action has its genesis in an event all too familiar to practitioners in this Court: the New York State Bar Examination (hereinafter referred to as Bar Exam). Plaintiff, David Fruchtman, alleges that the grading of Essay Question #5 in the February, 1981 Bar Exam was arbitrary and irrational, in violation of his rights under the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Plaintiff also contends that the review procedures afforded to a failing applicant who challenges his grade are constitutionally…
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- Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NMSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Juidice v. VailSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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