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...first time in its history, Harvard may have to release confidential internal documents from a tenure case, now that a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled against Harvard's motion to dismiss a civil suit filed by a former assistant professor...
...filing its most recent motion to dismiss the case, the University argued that a Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling last September suggested that courts should not interfere with private universities' internal procedures. The court ruled against a student who had claimed that Brandeis University disregarded its student handbook guidelines when it disciplined him for allegedly raping another undergraduate...
...Judge Raymond J. Brassard, who had denied Harvard's first motion to dismiss the case prior to the Brandeis decision, found that Berkowitz's case still had merit. He made the ruling in light of an amended complaint Berkowitz submitted, detailing the ways in which he believes Harvard violated its rules...
...wife Lynda appeared together in a commercial for the United Way. He also threw his weight behind conservative political causes, attracting a sell-out crowd when he spoke at a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner. But last week a circuit-court judge in Waukesha, Wis., refused to dismiss or delay Chmura's Jan. 23 trial for sexual assault and enticement of a minor. Packer fans have never quite got over the shock of seeing the local hero, the go-to guy in the green-and-gold uniform, clad in handcuffs and an orange penal-system jumpsuit as he was led into...
...Senate split is a recipe for either unparalleled bipartisan cooperation or two years of unprecedented gridlock - and while more cynical pundits might dismiss the former as a pipe dream, Senate Democratic leaders are taking up the cause of collaboration, especially on relatively middle-of-the-road causes like education and prescription drug benefits...