Back in May, which objectively wasn’t that long ago but feels positively sepia-toned at this point, Florida not only had no plans to cancel the July administration of the bar exam, they were bragging about their plans for packing 2000+ people into the test without spreading the disease everywhere.
The Florida bravado was everywhere!
Since then, let’s see what happened according to the Worldometers daily new cases graph for Florida:
Oh.
Today, the bar examiners and the state supreme court have seen enough. They announced that the July bar exam is off and will be replaced by an August online exam.
Now if only the rest of the holdout states would get the memo.
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.
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