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...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...
...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...
...before the Board to advocate for themselves. The board hears three types of cases: petitions, academic review, and disciplinary cases. Petitions include fairly standard academic requests like taking time off, registering late, or counting courses not taken at Harvard, and take up most of the Board’s docket. It would be grossly inefficient for students to be present for such routine decisions. But in disciplinary cases and academic reviews, which can lead to students being asked to leave Harvard for a year or longer, students are often not allowed to speak to the Board. Indeed, they are only...
There are more than a couple 0-1’s on the docket this week attached to teams that entered the year with legitimate title aspirations. Penn, Princeton, and Harvard all started 2007 with losses last Saturday. Yet here’s the beauty—or ludicrousness, depending on how you look at it—of the Ivy League: non-conference play is purely for pride. There will be no playoffs, no Week 11, no matter what. Strength of schedule, quality losses, margin of victory—they’re all extraneous concepts. It?...
...rise above politics in order to focus on the big picture. “The response [to his appointment] in the education community has been so overwhelmingly positive because nobody feels like they’re going to be excluded,” Norton said. Reville faces a full docket this fall, between the retirement of state education commissioner David P. Driscoll and the beginning of a 10-year plan to overhaul public education in Massachusetts. Still, Reville remain optimistic about the challenges balancing his duties at the GSE with his new position on Beacon Hill...