{"id":250413,"date":"2026-04-03T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250413\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:52:10","slug":"california-bar-exam-class-suit-against-vendor-goes-to-mediation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250413\/","title":{"rendered":"California Bar Exam Class Suit Against Vendor Goes to Mediation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A class action brought by takers of California\u2019s February 2025 bar exam against the vendor whose online platform crashed on test day was paused for mediation.<\/p>\n<p>ProctorU Inc. and the <a data-terminal-id=\"SSDCYRDWLU68\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/aspiring-california-attorneys-sue-over-bar-exam-disaster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposed class of bar takers<\/a> agreed to mediate before retired federal Judge Andrew Guilford on July 14, per a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/InreProctorUCaliforniaBarExamLitigationDocketNo425cv02095NDCalFeb?doc_id=X3BJKDL098F4RK5UH5SD2DQEK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stipulation and order<\/a> signed Wednesday by Judge Jon S. Tigar of the US District Court for the Northern District of California.<\/p>\n<p>Guilford, formerly a judge in the US District Court for the Central District of California, is now a mediator, arbitrator, and private judge with Judicate West.<\/p>\n<p>A motion to dismiss &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A class action brought by takers of California\u2019s February 2025 bar exam against the vendor whose online platform&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36437,7,9,8,7684,37050,4834,54565],"class_list":["post-250413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-arbitration","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-class-actions","tag-dismissal","tag-large-language-models","tag-mediation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}