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Interesting MM moment: class action lawsuit
Well in a rare moment of role reversal, it looks like H is eligible to collect from a class action lawsuit. You all may remember a post from last summer about how catastrophic the bar exam was for July 2014. Basically, the entire country takes the essay portion on the same day. Nearly everybody uses a laptop with the same software downloaded on it (in my state, it costs $120 for a 2-day license... not even joking), and then everybody uploads their answers before midnight.
So the whole country is uploading answers at the same time.
When the software crashed and thousands of law-graduates-hoping-to-become-lawyers couldn't upload their answers by the deadline, they sued.
ExamSoft just settled for $2.1 million, and it sounds like the test-takers who used their software on the July 2014 exam are entitled to receive $90 from the company. I don't do litigation, but even I know that was a really fast settlement for a class action. So yeah. I think they knew they were toast.
Anyway, my H is going to claim his $90 - it took him several hours to get his answers uploaded. If you all know of any newly-minted lawyers who took the bar exam last summer, you might want to pass that info along to them 
Crazy.
Re: Interesting MM moment: class action lawsuit
I remember when you were talking about this last year. Absolutely unbelievable! I'd be a little more sympathetic to ExamSoft if there was something really out of the ordinary that happened last year...but sounds like this is a continuing and totally preventable problem they experience every year because "hey, we got our money, that's your problem to go through hell and high water to get your test to submit on time."
Glad to hear about the class action settlement! Maybe this will finally be their wake-up call to get their act together.
And here is also a good example, folks, of why monopolies are such a bad idea! Until the lawsuit, obviously they had zero incentive to improve things.
Totally unrelated to this lawsuit, but I got $500 in a class action lawsuit. I had worked part-time at The Old Spaghetti Factory in college and, about four years later, I got paperwork in the mail about a class action lawsuit because they never gave their employees the mandated 10 minute break for 4 hours of work (CA Labor Law), plus some other complaints, but that was the main one. It was certainly true, at least for the restaurant I worked in.
It took me less than 5 minutes to fill out a basic form and mail it back to the attorney's office. About 8 weeks later, got a check for $500. It was a very nice surprise!