Daily Record, The (Baltimore), Jul 21, 2010 by Brendan Kearney
At least two of the blind law graduates whose requests to use screen-access software to take the Maryland bar exam have been denied by the National Conference of Bar Examiners and a federal judge will take next week’s licensing test anyway, their lawyer confirmed this week.
Timothy Elder and Michael Witver “will take the test using a human reader,” Dan Goldstein said. Plaintiff Anne Blackfield “has just had emergency eye surgery, so it’s not clear whether she’ll be in a position to take the exam, but if she’s able to then I think all three will do that.”
Goldstein would not say why the three had decided to sit for the July 27-28 exam, citing confidential attorney-client communications. At last week’s preliminary injunction hearing in U.S. District Court, Goldstein seemed concerned that the civil rights case could drag on for years since a final decision by Judge J
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