By Anne Ryman | Arizona Republic
Three for-profit law schools, including Arizona Summit Law School, are suing the American Bar Association, accusing the national accrediting body of abuses of power and unequal treatment.
The lawsuits, filed in federal court over the past two weeks, allege the ABA applies “arbitrarily” the standards required for law-school accreditation while giving a pass to other schools with lower outcomes.
Arizona Summit, which filed its lawsuit on Thursday morning in U.S. District Court in Arizona, is the last of the three schools to pursue litigation against the ABA. Its sister schools, Florida Coastal School of Law and the now-shuttered Charlotte School of Law, filed separate civil lawsuits earlier this month.
