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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division KARA GORDON, et al., Case No. 20-cv-06442-LB

Plaintiffs,

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR A

v. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA, et al., Re: ECF No. 6 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION The three plaintiffs in this lawsuit — all with disabilities that preclude their taking the October 5–6, 2020 California bar exam remotely under the State Bar of California’s current testing requirements — sued the State Bar and the National Conference of Bar Examiners (“NCBE”) and moved for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the State Bar from requiring them to take the bar in person. In the complaint, the plaintiffs contend that the defendants’ failure to accommodate their inability to comply with three remote-testing conditions — no bathroom breaks during a test session, no paper tests, and no physical scratch paper — violates (1) Title II of the Americans with 25 …