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Yet another obstacle to Fried's nomination isan incident which occurred at Harvard Law School(HLS) in 1992, when he reportedly threatened tohave students disbarred for holding a sit-in inhis office.
In March, 1992 fifteen students staged a sit-inat Fried's office protesting his allegedlydiscriminatory views on minority hiring practices.The sit-in occurred at a time when law schoolstudents were pressuring the administration todiversify the faculty at HLS.
The students unfurled banners in Fried's officeproclaiming their protest. Fried responded bythreatening the students with academic and policedisciplinary action, according to a 1992 Crimsonarticle.
Fried also reportedly said he would contact thestudent's respective bar districts and inform thebar associations of the students' trespassingoffense, according to Boston Herald reports atthat time.
Jane E. Sender, the president of theMassachusetts Women's Bar Association, says thisincident shows that Fried lacks the propertemperament for a judicial position.