Draft talk:Blackstone Career Institute

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I think the tag definitely applies as currently this article has two others linking to it, both disambiguation articles. --Ronz (talk) 17:50, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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Predecessor College of Law
This needs to be worked in to the article. The predecessor Blackstone College of Law (or Blackstone School of Law) was an unaccredited correspondence law school in operation from the 1890s through the 1970s; in 1948, the Federal Trade Commission ordered Blackstone to cease misrepresenting its qualifications as a law school (case here).

"Blackstone College of Law, Inc., is a corporation organized, existing, and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois, with its office and principal place of business located at 307 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Respondent, Blackstone-Sprague School, Inc., is also an Illinois corporation and is likewise located at 307 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Respondent, Harold L. Lister, is the president of Blackstone College of Law, Inc., and is president and treasurer of Blackstone-Sprague School, Inc. Respondent, E. Stanley Gerig, is the vice president and secretary of Blackstone College of Law, Inc., and secretary of Blackstone-Sprague School, Inc., and is also acting general manager of both schools. ...

Blackstone College of Law, Inc., Harold L. Lister, and E. Stanley Gerig, have represented to members of the public that respondent Blackstone College of Law, Inc., is a large, long-established, and wellequipped law school, with a faculty of many well-known and scholarly instructors, and using a method of teaching law comparable to the methods used by leading resident law schools, including Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. They have also represented, by implication and inference, that Blackstone College of Law, Inc., is a recognized and standard law school, that it has been given an A rating by the American Association of Law Schools, and that its courses of instruction are comparable in every respect to those used in the leading university law schools. PAR. 6. In truth and in fact, Blackstone College of Law, Inc., is not a large, long-established, and well-equipped law school, and does not have a large faculty of well-known and scholarly instructors. The only lawyers employed by it in any capacity are two local attorneys who examine and grade the written lessons sent in from time to time by its students. Respondents, Harold L. Lister and E. Stanley Gerig, president and secretary respectively, of said Blackstone College of Law, Inc., are not lawyers, and are not equipped, either by education or experience, to give instruction in law, and said Blackstone College of Law, Inc., has no faculty in the ordinary meaning of the term. Its courses of instruction and methods of teaching law are not comparable in any respect to those used by leading university law schools. Blackstone College of Law, Inc., has no standing as an accredited and recognized law school, and it has not been given an A rating or any other rating by the American Association of Law Schools. PAR. 7. By means of the representations set-out in paragraph 4 hereof and others of similar import and effect, the respondents, Blackstone College of Law, Inc., Harold L. Lister, and E. Stanley Gerig, have represented to members of the public that it is important, essential, and helpful for a person to exhibit law diplomas and degrees in seeking or in order to qualify for commissions in the Army and Navy or desirable civilian positions in connection with the war effort, and that in response to requests of its former students it is offering a special accelerated graduation plan on account of the wartime emergency. Said respondents further represent that, because of the “certainty” that the former students of Blackstone College of Law, Inc., have read and studied carefully the law books and lessons previously furnished them, there is no reason why they are not eligible for immediate graduation and award of the various legal degrees for which they had previously been candidates, including bachelor of laws (LL.B.), master of laws (LL.M.), juris doctor (J.D.), and the pretended degree of graduate of laws (LL. G.), and that these degrees will play an important part in qualifying said former students for positions and part in the war effort."

- BD2412  T 05:21, 27 December 2019 (UTC)