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May 8, 2023

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California’s February bar pass rate sinks, following national trend

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California, with a bar exam pass rate of 32.5%, joins a wave of jurisdictions with pass rate declines in February—a trend some experts have attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of law schools.

With drops in New York, Florida and Texas, all but a handful of jurisdictions have now reported their February results, and the majority posted pass rate decreases.

Like other states, California had a high proportion of repeat examinees this February, at 71%. Among the 29% who were taking the bar for the first time, the pass rate was 45%.

How does 2023’s overall pass rate compare to pre-pandemic 2020?

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Trump’s lawyer calls civil rape case an affront to justice system

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Donald Trump‘s lawyer Joseph Tacopina called the rape and defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll against the former U.S. president an affront to the justice system, during closing arguments on Monday.

Earlier in the day, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said a 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Trump says women let him “grab ’em” by their genitalia bolstered the accounts of Carroll and other women who accuse Trump of sexual assault.

Through three days of testimony, jurors heard from Carroll, two of her longtime friends, and two other women who said Trump sexually assaulted them in separate incidents years ago. Trump, who said he would not testify in the trial, denied raping Carroll in a video deposition played for the jury last Wednesday.

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Cannabis company loses bid to sanction lawyers in U.S. pot patent battle

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Cooley and its client United Cannabis Corp do not have to pay their opponent’s legal fees in a patent lawsuit over CBD extraction technology, the Federal Circuit ruled Monday. Cannabis company Pure Hemp’s arguments that Cooley hid vital information in UCANN’s patent application and ignored a conflict of interest were “extremely weak,” the court said.