Fight For Blind Students To Avoid LSAT Headed To SCOTUS

A blind man who says he was rejected from every law school he applied to because his disability prevented him from performing well on the LSATs will take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Five years ago, Angelo Binno sued the American Bar Association for disability discrimination. The ABA requires law schools to only accept students who have taken the LSATs or another “valid and reliable test,” except for very limited circumstances. Binno claims that because of his disablity he couldn’t draw the diagrams required for the logic games portion of the LSAT, causing him to score too low on the test to gain acceptance to a law school program. The ABA has said that Binno should instead sue the individual schools to which he applied, but Binno’s attorney disagrees. “If you require something, if you force somebody to take an exam, you should be liable if that exam is discriminatory,” he said.