The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates voted last week in support of a Resolution to ensure that LSAT test organizations provide appropriate accommodations for applicants and examinees with disabilities. The resolution required the LSAT application process, the LSAT exam, the LSAT scoring, and the reporting of the LSAT scores to third parties such as law schools, be free of discrimination as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended. The Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended, requires test organizations that administer the LSAT to provide reasonable accommodations and modifications in the applications process, the test setting, and the reporting of test scores, without reference to the accommodations or modification that were provided. Applicants for the LSAT must establish that they have a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended, that their disability causes a significant limitation upon a major life activity, and the request for an accommodation and/or modification is reasonable and will not result in either an undue financial or administrative burden or fundamentally alter the nature of the LSAT application and exam.
For information about the American Bar Association’s House of Delegate’s Resolution No. 111 and report accompanying that resolution, click onto the ABA’s website: www.abanow.org/2012/01/2012mm111/.
For information on the U.S. Department of Justice’s final regulations enacted on March 29, 2011 to implement Title II and Title III of the 2008 amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act, click on the U.S. Department of Justice’s website: www.justice.gov