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...that MIT has come out of the lawsuit filed by Krueger's family $6 million poorer (the school settled with the family this September), the pressure is on both colleges and the city to puritanize student nightlife...
UpStairs filed suit against Harvard earlier this fall, in hopes of remaining in the building, despite the College's plans for extensive renovations. Harvard in turn filed its own lawsuit in mid-October...
...Bush files federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Miami to halt all hand counts. The argument: since there is no uniform standard governing hand counts, voters will be treated unequally, violating their equal protection rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution...
...time, he had been tending to his dying mother in Fullerton, Calif. By Dec. 3, he had mastered 30,000 pages of the original trial transcript, and for the duration of the appeal he split his time between federal court in Washington and his mother's bedside. "A large lawsuit is a little bit like a war," he told TIME then. "Logistics plays a critical role. And when it's over, the people who've won are heroes. Those who've lost are terrible...
...another room in the same courthouse, Circuit Court Judge Nikki Clark ruled in favor of Al Gore's lawyers, who are fighting to keep a challenge to Seminole County absentee ballots separate from the vice president's lawsuit contesting the election. A Democratic activist has charged Republican election workers of improperly writing in voter-registration numbers on thousands of absentee ballot requests in heavily Republican Seminole County, and wants to have all the county's 15,000 or so absentee ballots discarded from the general tally. Gore's team is wary of such an argument, which runs counter to their...