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Harvard prevailed in a last-ditch effort to protect the secrecy of its tenure process when a Mass. superior court judge ruled on Friday to send former Assistant Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz's lawsuit against the University to an appeals court...
...that insiders had unloaded shares before revealing the true state of the firm's finances. "A lot of old-style owners think small shareholders are just there to fork out money and go away," says Mark Tungler, a lawyer with the German Shareholder Protection Association, which is preparing a lawsuit against the Haffas. "Well, the rules have changed...
...such a decision is not up to the government. The First Amendment, which protects NAMBLA's (and Ms. Melia's) freedom of association and freedom of speech, specifically takes such a decision out of the hands of the government. Hence, it is quite thinkable that NAMBLA will win the lawsuit pending against it that seeks to shut down its website and shut up its members...
...charges against IBM are hardly unique. Many U.S.-based multinationals, including Ford Motor Company, Coca-Cola and Colgate-Palmolive, have weathered charges of aiding and/or operating for profits under the Nazi regime. A few years ago, when a lawsuit was brought against Ford, the company fought (and won) for a dismissal, but not before it acknowledged that its German subsidiary used labor from the Buchenwald concentration camp to build vehicles. Ford's U.S. offices maintain they were not responsible for what went on after its assets were seized in 1941 - a claim many companies, including IBM, make in the face...
...Ironically, the lawsuit filed last week against IBM could mean yet another delay for those seeking reparations; German firms participating in the compensation effort have demanded protection against future claims on behalf of victims of the Nazis, and IBM's apparent vulnerability may invigorate those demands...