{"id":1915,"date":"2024-07-23T00:42:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/second-circuit-says-new-york-state-board-of-law-examiners-is-immune-from-suit\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T00:42:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:42:37","slug":"second-circuit-says-new-york-state-board-of-law-examiners-is-immune-from-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/second-circuit-says-new-york-state-board-of-law-examiners-is-immune-from-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Circuit Says New York State Board of Law Examiners is Immune From Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a Harvard Law School graduate\u2019s claims that the\u00a0New York State Board of Law Examiners wrongly denied test-taking accommodations during the bar exam, affirming\u00a0the board\u2019s sovereign immunity protections.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1XEefo2qtJrzNTNKtx3OyZDSJMlirVcDH\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 19 opinion<\/a>, authored by\u00a0Second Circuit Judge William J. Nardini, the panel affirmed a ruling by\u00a0U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie of the Eastern District of New York dismissing claims brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act\u00a0by a plaintiff identified as T.W., who\u00a0suffers from a variety of complications resulting from a severe head injury.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a Harvard Law School graduate\u2019s claims that the\u00a0New York State Board of Law Examiners wrongly denied test-taking accommodations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1580,610,2660,2661,153,1911,339,326],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-board","tag-circuit","tag-examiners","tag-immune","tag-law","tag-state","tag-suit","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}