Posted on 06/15/2016 2:10:15 PM PDT by Cecily
A Harvard Law School graduate is suing the New York Board of Law Examiners, blaming her failures to pass the bar exam on the board's refusal to grant accommodations for her disability.
Tamara Wyche eventually passed the bar in 2015, but claims that her legal career had already been damaged by the two prior failures.
Wyche, 29, suffers from debilitating panic attacks and requested that the board allow her to take the exam in a separate room from other test-takers, provide extra time and stop-clock breaks to decrease the stress level, according to the suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
She got upset because the affirmative action gravy trained just stopped...
No photo. I am betting she is one of the protected class and plans to work for the gummint. Maybe Secretary of Education.
Didn’t hellary fail it twice or was that billybob job, her coattails?
top law firms are right not to want to employ her
if she can’t handle stress then she can’t handle the most demanding kinds of jobs
Snowflake melts
Sheesh...get a job cleaning restrooms. No tension.
Perhaps once they pass her she can also ask the judges before whom she appears for a separate courtroom, without all those nerve-wracking things like deadlines, jurors, judges, and an opposing counsel.
Do you really to piss off those that can pull your license?
She is......google her name
She’s a good fit to be the next prosecutor in Baltimore.
Bump! Perfect explanation.
I taught a pre-law class at USC last year. I had one student who presented a letter at the beginning of class informing me that she had a “disability” that required that I send her my lecture notes for every class, and that she be given extra time to finish the exams. She had no ostensible disability. I gave her a “B” on her first assignment due to an obvious lack of effort, and she came into office hours to argue about what exactly warranted her “B”. Apparently, she’s a straight “A” student.
“Wyche put those skills into practice as a summer intern on Capitol Hill for the Black American Political Action Committee. Asked to research gubernatorial and mayoral candidates and then decide on their suitability for funding, Wyche first doubted her ability to make such decisions. But she then realized that her Bates education had more than prepared her to do the job. As a political liberal working in a conservative organization, Wyche concluded that “considering different points of view allows you to better present your own.”
https://www.bates.edu/news/2008/05/23/tamara-wyche/
The bar exam is racist. They should just give her a license and let her win all her cases.
ADA is waste of American resources.
I am seeing students want extra time past the end of the quarter! “I should be allowed to turn in assignments and exams whenever I want, even next year!”
Your hunch about being a member of a protected class is correct.
There are some things a handicapped person simply cannot do. The very things she required to prevent panic attacks are not going to be had in a court room. If the opposing attorney starts shouting and being very demanding, what’s she going to do, sue them?
So you’re right, working for the gubmint, making it even less efficient. But then again she’s really not screwing any good attorney out of a job, as they are busy getting rich using their talents they worked hard to get without government pampering.
“Perhaps once they pass her “
Read the article.
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