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Harvard could soon find itself targeted in a lawsuit demanding reparations for slavery, according to one of its own professors who is spearheading the suit...
...editorial published in Sunday’s New York Times, Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, co-chair of a national committee seeking compensation for slavery, wrote that the group is reviewing possible defendants for a wide-ranging reparations lawsuit it plans to file next fall...
...bracing for fresh claims against the two Portland priests. When Florida's Bishop of Palm Beach Anthony O'Connell resigned March 10, after revelations that he had fondled a student 25 years ago, church officials disclosed that they had handed the victim $125,000 to quash a lawsuit in 1996. In the past decade, four dioceses (see chart) have laid out $96.2 million in settlements. And these are only the ones that have become public; the vast majority carry confidentiality agreements that continue to conceal the full extent of priest misconduct and church payouts...
...landmark decision handed down Tuesday by the highest court in Massachusetts will allow a gender discrimination lawsuit against Harvard to finally move forward after years of delay...
...story behind the decision dates back to 1997, when HUPD Sgt. Kathleen Stanford filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the University after being denied a promotion...