Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's administrative board provides students with few of the legal protections provided by courts, such as the right to cross examine accusers and to be represented by counsel. But while many call the system unjust, its standards have proven difficult to challenge in court...
MacLeish said the 1997 lawsuit, in which he and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz argued a case in court for a week before reaching a settlement, involved a handicapped student...
...case of Coveney v. President and Trustees of the College of Holy Cross, the court declared that it would not overturn school decisions "if school officials act in good faith and on reasonable grounds...
...University did follow the procedures that it usually follows, whatever it decided would probably be considered final," he said. "If the University held a hearing and found misconduct occurred, a court would usually be reluctant to overrule...
...product-liability setback. In February 1993, a Georgia jury slapped General Motors with a $105 million verdict for having designed its C/K pickup trucks with sidesaddle gas tanks, which the plaintiffs claimed made the vehicles prone to explode during side crashes. The Georgia verdict was overturned by an appellate court on a technicality, and shortly before the retrial, the parties reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount. GM has let it be know that it plans to aggressively appeal last week?s verdict, and, says Christian, "most observers would be amazed if some undisclosed settlement did not finally occur...