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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...
...Krohn, who originally filed his suit with the U.S. District court in September of 1975 after his rejection the previous spring, took his case on appeal after a District Court judge accepted Harvard's motion to dismiss the case last August...
...suit rests on Krohn's contention that, because the Commonwealth of Massachusetts originally founded and endowed the University, Harvard is still subject to state action...
...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...