California Supremes to Decide if Disgraced Journalist Stephen Glass Can Get a Law License
The California Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a journalist who fabricated facts for his articles is fit to practice law.
The last time the court agreed to decide a moral character case was 11 years ago, the Recorder reports. The court will review a decision by the Review Department of the State Bar Court that found one-time journalist Stephen Glass is eligible to practice law.
The review court found that Glass had reformed since he lost his job at The New Republic in 1998, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported in September. TNR had fired Glass after concluding he apparently manufactured facts in 27 out of 41 articles written for the magazine.
Glass is a Georgetown University law graduate who was barred from practicing in New York. He currently works as a paralegal at Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley in Los Angeles, the Recorder says.
