Word: dockets
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...forecasting purposes, in good Halloween spirit, there are two tricks and two treats on the docket this weekend. Barring a major upset, Harvard and Yale will have opened up a two-game cushion over the rest of the field by Saturday evening. The last time the archrivals both began the season with 4-0 records in the Ivies was 1974, when the two schools split the title...
Amid the mire of ways, means, and appropriations, a history lesson may seem out of place on the docket of the United States House of Representatives. This month, however, a particularly vivid example has materialized, and rightly so: The United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs has approved and submitted a bill that would recognize that neglected genocide of more than a million Armenian Christians by Ottoman Turks from...
...nation's." Compounding this is the fact that the court is tackling fewer cases than at any other time in the past half-century. Last term's output of just 68 decisions was the lowest since 1953. Court watchers and even the Justices themselves aren't sure why the docket is so small. Nor do the Justices have a plan for picking up the pace. The U.S. is the world's most litigious society, but our lawsuits aren't sexy enough to interest the Justices of the Roberts Court. We're not that into them, and they're not that...
...with voting rights, the death penalty, Guantánamo detainees and, in all likelihood, gun control on the docket this term, there will be plenty of fuel to heat up the rhetoric again. The question is whether Roberts and his colleagues will put away their matches...
...says Berkowitz, who later claimed that misconduct had occurred during his tenure review. With the advice and support of Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson, Berkowitz appealed using Harvard’s internal grievance procedures. In a formal grievance to Dean Knowles and the elected members of the Docket Committee in early 1999, Berkowitz alleged that four of the five members of the ad hoc committee assembled to advise Rudenstine “showed bias, conflict of interest, or lack of expertise.” Later that year, however, a Harvard investigation found Berkowitz’s allegations...