Did Scalia Have a Racial Grading Curve at University of Chicago Law School?

A group of highly accomplished lawyers, all black and all University of Chicago Law School grads, now report that then-Prof. Scalia gave them D or F grades. To put this in perspective that law school has a grading curve that informs instructors that fewer than 1% of their grades should be a D or an F. The Chicago Maroon reports that Arnim Johnson (black law grad, U of C) believed that Scalia intended to widen the gap between himself and blacks. Other UChicago law grads corroborated Johnson’s accusations against Scalia. In an interview for Gawker, Ben Streeter, an attorney with the Federal Election Commission and graduate of the UChicago Law School, stated that he observed Scalia’s preferential treatment of conservative white students. According to Streeter, the final exam for Scalia’s administrative law class covered material that had not been discussed in class and that students would only have known had they spoken with Scalia outside of the classroom.