Judge Rejects Another Lawsuit Over Law School's Job-Placement Claims

By Katherine Mangan

A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Thomas M. Cooley Law School, the second such suit filed by jobless law-school graduates to be thrown out in recent months.

The judge, Gordon J. Quist of the U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Mich., ruled on Friday that although Cooley's job-placement statistics were "inconsistent, confusing, and inherently