The Ann Arbor News covers Adrian Zachariasewycz’s complaint against the University of Michigan Law School (see Jan. 27), and quotes me along the way:
In addition to seeking unspecified monetary damages, Zachariasewycz wants the law school to study his scores and provide a letter or make a verbal statement to prospective employers saying that his typing was a factor in his exams.
“I paid a lot of money to go to law school,” Zachariasewycz said. “I interrupted my career. I worked very hard. And I got a big zero out of it.”
Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank in New York City, is founder of overlawyered.com, which posted a comment about the case and other lawsuits Olson believes have “eyebrow-raising potential.”
“It’s hard to figure out what’s been done to him that’s unlawful,” Olson said.
Olson said he thought it first had something to do with rights of the disabled.
“But it looks like he’s just an ordinary bad typist like a lot of the rest of us.”
(Jo Collins Mathis, “U-M law school sued over grad’s poor typing skills”, Ann Arbor News, Feb. 2).
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Maybe he never read Ecclesiastes, IX, 11.
“”I paid a lot of money to go to law school,” Zachariasewycz said. “I interrupted my career. I worked very hard. And I got a big zero out of it.””
I assume that means he graduated. One more lawyer at the trough.
A graduate of my alma mater sued the school under the RICO laws, alleging that he was misled into thinking he’d get a job. I was sympathetic to the sentiment but not the suit. As one of the judges wrote in the opinion dismissing the claim, “this is the kind of lawsuit that has given RICO a bad name.”