This case concerns a law school’s attempt to prevent current and prospective students from having access to accurate information about its accreditation status. An order requiring the ABA to retract truthful information from the public will harm prospective law students who are in the midst of the application process.
— Senior U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Tarnow, in a ruling slapping down the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s request for a temporary restraining order against the American Bar Association. Cooley Law tried to prevent the ABA from publicly releasing a letter stating that the law school had been censured for being out of compliance with accreditation standards, but according to Tarnow, Cooley “ignore[d] the reality that prospective students [had] already drawn conclusions about the school because of this lawsuit.”
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