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Key Facts
- Federal level: 34 CFR 104.4 prohibits excluding, denying benefits, or otherwise discriminating against qualified individuals with a disability/handicap in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance.
- Federal level: Under 34 CFR 104.4, recipients may not deny the opportunity to participate or benefit, provide unequal opportunity, or provide aid, benefits, or services that are not as effective on the basis of disability/handicap.
- National overview: LSAC’s LSAT accommodations policy states that LSAC is committed to providing necessary testing accommodations for the LSAT and LSAT Argumentative Writing to candidates with documented disabilities.
- National overview: LSAC’s policy requires registered test takers to submit accommodation requests through JD Services and states that requests are due by an accommodation-request deadline tied to the specific test.
- National overview: LSAC’s policy states that candidates with a previously approved LSAT accommodation will generally receive the same or equivalent accommodation on future LSATs, subject to policy exceptions.
- National overview: The targeted abaNow legacy page for 2012mm111 returned HTTP 404 during retrieval, so the post’s specific 2012 claims and citations cannot be verified here.
Last reviewed: May 2026. Legal rules, forms, deadlines, and procedures can change by jurisdiction, agency, and court system.
This legal information article uses archive recovery methods to separate what a missing historical record can show from what current official sources confirm.
The recovery target for this entry involves the abaNow legacy URL for 2012mm111, but the legacy page could not be retrieved during research because it returned HTTP 404, so the 2012 post’s specific wording, quotes, and citations remain unverified in this article.
Missing archive pages matter because old citations and statements often get reused in later writing without the underlying record being checkable, which increases the risk of repeating inaccurate or incomplete historical content.
To keep the article evidence-first, the verified portions focus on (1) a current Federal disability nondiscrimination baseline in 34 CFR 104.4 and (2) a maintained example of how a private standardized-test provider describes its accommodations process, using LSAC’s LSAT accommodations policy as the example.
34 CFR 104.4 provides that no qualified person with a disability/handicap may be excluded from participation in, denied benefits of, or otherwise subjected to discrimination in any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, and it also prohibits discriminatory actions that deny the opportunity to participate or benefit, provide unequal opportunity, or provide aid, benefit, or services that are not as effective as those provided to others.
LSAC’s maintained accommodations policy page states that LSAC is committed to providing necessary testing accommodations for the LSAT and LSAT Argumentative Writing to candidates with documented disabilities, and it also describes policy mechanics that include submitting accommodation requests through JD Services and that requests are due by an accommodation-request deadline tied to the specific test administration.
The same LSAC policy page describes continuity for previously approved accommodations by stating that, except as noted in the policy, candidates with a previously approved LSAT accommodation will be automatically approved to receive the same or equivalent accommodation on future LSATs, subject to policy exceptions.
Archive comparisons can help readers understand what different kinds of sources do. See, for example, ABA archives entry about Justice Anthony Kennedy for another example of how historical items get treated as context rather than as binding current law.
Regulation versus private policy a compact comparison
| Topic | What the verified authority says | What it does not prove |
|---|---|---|
| 34 CFR 104.4 (Federal regulation) | Bars disability/handicap discrimination in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance, including restrictions on opportunity and effectiveness. | It does not show what any specific archived abaNow post argued in 2012. |
| LSAC LSAT accommodations policy (private program policy) | Sets internal accommodations rules for LSAT testing through JD Services, including deadline linkage to the test administration and continuity for previously approved accommodations (subject to exceptions). | It does not establish Federal binding legal duties by itself, and it is not the same type of source as a CFR regulation. |
What this archive item can and cannot be treated as proving
Because the targeted abaNow 2012mm111 page returned HTTP 404 during retrieval, this entry cannot confirm the post’s specific historical claims, legal citations, or institutional conclusions. The current legal baseline discussed here comes only from accessible official sources, and the LSAC accommodations discussion is presented as an example of private policy language rather than as a substitute for the missing 2012 record.
