Class Action Claims Law School Unfairly Dismissed Students with Low Averages

An article in the National Law Journal (8/16/2006)
reports that a "former law student has filed a federal
class-action lawsuit against St. Thomas University School
of Law Miami, claiming that it is illegally accepting and
then expelling more than 25% of its first-year class to boost
its flagging bar pass rates."

The article goes on to address another claim in the lawsuit
that St. Thomas is "violating its own policy of a mandatory
grading curve that calls for 15% of all grades to be lower than
a C+ [because] far more than 15% of first- and second-year
students receive grades that put them on academic probation."