California High Court to Hear Case on Racial Data

The California Supreme Court will decide whether the State Bar must release data that might show racial patterns in performance on the state's bar exam, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. Richard Sander, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, wants the information (with demographic information but not the names of test-takers) to test theories about the impact of affirmative action at private law schools in the state. Sander has argued that affirmative action policies at the law schools result in the admission of students who cannot perform well on the bar exam.