Cooley Law School Loses Against ABA

The 6th circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit filed by Cooley Law School (the largest law school in the nation, located in Lansing, Michigan) against the American Bar Association. The school filed suit when the ABA refused to accredit two satellite campuses, one in Grand Rapids and one in Oakland County, and imposed sanctions on the school for operating those satellites without accreditation. The district court granted summary judgment to the ABA and dismissed the suit; the appeals court just upheld that judgment. The timing is rather interesting; just a few weeks ago, the ABA granted accreditation to those two campuses and they are gearing up for the fall semester right now. So whatever the issue was that prevented accreditation has been resolved. My buddy Dan will be moving from the Lansing campus to the Oakland campus, where he will teach constitutional law from now on.