Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somerville Court Judge Edward H. Bennett '37, yesterday postponed hearings on a lawsuit filed on behalf of two Harvard students who were denied the right to vote in Cambridge, but ordered that the Election Commission allow the students to vote in today's election...
...lawsuit filed by Civil Liberties Union lawyer John Reinstein, asks the court to rule that Cambridge must register any eligible student voter who considers Cambridge to be his place of residence. Bennett postponed the trial until both sides have time to prepare their testimonies...
Reinstein and Brode indicated last week that Bennett would make any decision on the lawsuit a "class action case." This would have meant that similar cases could be resolved according to the original one and would not have to be brought before the court...
Donald Steele, author of the election lawsuit, said yesterday that he thought Fox and the Coop "parted ways" in mutual hostility...
...Kapwepwe. So far, the government has not interfered directly with the largest opposition group, the African National Congress, which holds 21 seats in the National Assembly. But the A.N.C.'s veteran leader, Harry Nkumbula, 58, knows full well that his party is doomed. He recently lost a lawsuit in which he charged that the President's Second Republic plan would infringe on Nkumbula's civil rights under the present constitution; he is appealing the court's decision, but without much hope of success...