In a 65-page petition filed on Tuesday to the high court, the State Bar of California introduced the potential return of the Multistate Bar Exam, which is the multiple-choice component of the national bar exam produced by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

The State Bar of California’s new exam has been rife with problems, an A.I. controversy and now the likelihood of delayed results.

As we wrote when the early-May arguments were scheduled, it looks like the court might be doing this term what it did in the last — saving most of the oral arguments for the end. That’s a change from a policy instituted for the 2016-2017 term, when the court decided to have its calendars more evenly balanced throughout the term instead of backloading cases.

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