Word: fingold
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Robert G. Dodge yesterday announced plans to seek a court order forcing State Attorney General George Fingold to change his decision in the Arnold Arboretum case...
...Fingold had refused to act as plaintiff in a suit against the Corporation prohibiting the transference of books and specimens from the Arboretum to the new Herbarium. In Massachusetts, suits against a charitable trust--into which class the Arnold bequest falls--may only be brought in the Attorney General's name...
Charging that Fingold based his decision mainly on an opinion written by Harris Booras, State Special Assistant for Trusts, Dodge will probably begin his suit within two weeks...
Booras advised Fingold that the Corporation's plan to remove material from the Arboretum does not violate the terms of the Arnold trust. Dodge claims that Booras "disregarded the proper legal principles that should have guided his conduct," and will ask the court to order Fingold to begin suit against Harvard...
Such an order would have to contend that Fingold had shown "gross abuse of discretion," in deciding not to act. No Massachusetts law allows a court to issue an order of this sort...