Blind law school grad can see injustice
By Patty Fisher © San Jose Mercury News, California — Being blind didn’t keep Stephanie Enyart from graduating from Stanford University. It didn’t keep her from earning a law degree at UCLA. And she’s determined not to let it keep her from practicing law. Enyart, 32, is suing the National Conference of Bar Examiners, which repeatedly has denied her request to take the bar exam using adaptive technology. She was a 15-year-old high school sophomore growing up in Nipomo, south of San Luis Obispo, when she learned she suffered from a rare form of macular degeneration called Stargardt’s disease. Her central vision was deteriorating rapidly, and there was no way to stop it. At first, she refused to believe it…. READ ARTICLE