Word: krohn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth B. Krohn asked the panel of three appeals court judges to declare Harvard a public institution-a status that would oblige the Law School to uphold his 14th amendment rights-in order to force Harvard to answer his charges...
...brief that Krohn prepared himself, he argued that Harvard was founded as a state school, and that its status as a public institution has never been officially changed...
Although Freedman did not contest Krohn's assertion that the state's official control over the University has never been severed, he said the Commonwealth does not involve itself in the school's daily functioning, and the school is thus not required to provide due process...
...Krohn also argued that because there are no public law schools in Massachusetts--even though the state requires a law degree of applicants to the bar--the state has in effect delegated the task of licensing lawyers to private law schools...
...Krohn said he did not really expect his case to be taken seriously on the district court level. "Pro se litigants [people who argue their own cases] tend to be treated as cranks," he said...