The California Supreme Court has declined to review a civil jury verdict awarding more than $46 million to Jack Greener, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu student who suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury during a 2018 sparring session at Del Mar Jiu-Jitsu Club, court records show.

This decision comes after multiple lawsuits were filed over the February exam, a test that was riddled with technical difficulties, including some test-takers not even being able to access the test online as its platform kept crashing. Now, 230 more test takers have been told they passed the exam.

A California federal judge on Tuesday consolidated three lawsuits against exam vendor Meazure Learning over California's problem-plagued February bar exam. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in Oakland in his order, opens new tab also appointed attorneys from law firms Tycko & Zavareei and Sauder Schelkopf as lead lawyers for the test takers pursuing the proposed class action.

Civil cases took about 12.5 months from party briefing completion until oral argument. Non-capital criminal cases took about nine months. We also tracked the interval between the preliminary oral argument notification letter and the court ordering a case on calendar: on average in our study period civil cases took 58 days and non-capital criminal cases took 68 days. The court notified the parties of the oral argument date around 20 days in advance, in both civil and criminal cases.