Trial to Start in Federal Prosecution of Exam Cheats

"A trial opening in Camden, N.J., this week will showcase the first use of the federal mail fraud statute to prosecute students for cheating on standardized tests. Hany Al-Hedaithy is one of about 60 Middle Eastern students charged with hiring impostors to take a college entrance test. Al-Hedaithy has moved for discovery on whether he was singled out based on race, since this use of the mail fraud statute appears unprecedented," law.com reports here.