Comments on: Justice Placebo Is Mr. Darcy

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SC Supreme Court Report Card Won't Be Made Public | FITSNews For Now — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:18:27 +0000

[...] be made public, but it will be confidentially provided to Chief Justice Jean Toal and her fellow Justices, according to a memo from the American Bar [...]

By: Who u gonna call?

Who u gonna call? — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:58:31 +0000

Little Miss. who got daddy to pass her mentioned how all his hard work paid off right on her faces page, or whatever you call them, two days before the examner claims he found a mistake in the test section. It doesn’t take a lawyer, or any one with a bit of common sense to figure out that this entire mess is bogus. I love children that scream “I want a oompa loompa, daddy!” and get it.

By: holly golightly

holly golightly — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:41:10 +0000

Kathleen: “I don’t hate you.”
Joe: “But you’ll never forgive me. Just like Elizabeth..”
Kathleen: “Who?”
Joe: “Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. She was too proud.”
Kathleen: “I thought you hated Pride and Prejudice.”
Joe: “Or was she too prejudiced and Mr. Darcy is too proud. Ah- I can’t remember.”

hmm.. pride. think they’ve ever heard of it?

By: Snuggles

Snuggles — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:36:28 +0000

“Integrity of the bar admissions process”?……I think I need to throw up! But then again, our supreme court (and I intentionally did not capitalize the first letters) can not be blamed because someone might just have that divine intuition that enabled them know about the scriveners error on October 30 before it was reported to the court on October 31. It was all Hallows eve and strange things are supposed to happen.

By: HD

HD — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:13:52 +0000

Of all the possible explanations for what happened, the SCt’s is one of the more bizarre and unbelievable. Rather than have to tell one precious snowflake that he/she had actually failed, the Ct decided that the better option was to pass 19 others who actually failed. Did it not occur to the Ct that a “better” option, if it was feeling generous, would have been to simply apply its “all results are final” rule to the precious snowflake, pass him/her, and leave the rest of the takers out of it? Sure, that would have meant that 19 people failed when one identically situated person passed. Oh well. What about all those people who failed two sections, neither of which was T&E? Is it “fair” to them that they still fail the exam just because there was no “scrivener’s error” on a test in the sections they failed? After all, for the 19 who failed the exam and are now lawyers, it was just serendipity that the “scrivener’s error” happened on one test in a section they failed – it could have as easily been in a different section.

While I have no evidence on which to question the Justices’ integrity, I certainly question their judgment. Their chosen resolution to the problem that confronted them (as they describe it) was absurd.

By: ?

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:32:47 +0000

Iâ€™m glad all of the effort I put into passing the bar in July has been cheapened by some goodoldboys making sure their children passed. I am even more ecstatic that my profession has been further undermined, in this state, by a total lack of real accountability.

By: Please Don't Fire Us, Your Majesty

Please Don't Fire Us, Your Majesty — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:03:16 +0000

The SC Bar, didn’t say Board of Governors this time, issued this statement a little while ago:

On November 19, the Court issued an additional statement regarding the events and actions surrounding the July 2007 bar examination. The full text of the statement can be viewed here. Today, the Bar issued the following statement:

â€œThe South Carolina Bar appreciates the candor and responsiveness of the Supreme Court in its recent statement regarding the bar examination grading error. The Bar recognizes that the Court had no obligation to explain its decision. Indeed, judicial independence and impartiality require the Court to be deliberative and to render opinions apart from external considerations. However, in making the additional statement, the Court has put to rest any speculation concerning the facts. The Statement further exemplifies the conscientiousness with which the Court addresses all the important matters that come before it. The Bar is confident that the Court has and will continue to maintain the integrity of the bar admissions process.â€

Oh, yeah, I’m convinced.

By: More Questions than Answers

More Questions than Answers — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:00:55 +0000

Also, It looks like this T&E examiner was intended to be the fall guy by resigning. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. I wonder how he was enticed to comply?

By: More Questions than Answers

More Questions than Answers — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:57:59 +0000

Q: How did Burch and Harrison know that the T&E section was their golden ticket? When you fail the bar, do they tell which sections you failed?

Also, I think this new supreme court statement reveals more involvement on Hearn’s part than he has previously let on in public statements. How could an examiner under Hearn’s direct supervision go back and review the exams and then report the scrivener’s error to the supreme court without Hearn’s knowledge? I think it was very likely that Hearns not only knew about it, but directed the examiner to do so after speaking with Harrison and Burch. His previous statement was likley a CYA and an outright lie.

Furthermore, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hearns informed Toal on “what needed to be done” when the scrivener’s error was brought to their attention. I would hope that Harrrison would not have been dumb enough to contact Toal directly, but it wouldn’t surprise me either.

By: ToTOALed

ToTOALed — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:21:12 +0000

Sue Ellen, I don’t think you really get it, do you?

They’re fit to judge themselves now.