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...hands-off attitude.” And Harvard Law School professors said the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case does not imply that it agrees with the ruling of the federal appellate court. The appellate judges ruled that the GSU dean has immunity from a lawsuit. “The Supreme Court’s denial or grant of certiorari is entirely discretionary,” Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried wrote in an e-mail. “A denial of ‘cert’ has absolutely no precedential effect...
...federal judge found Shleifer and an associate, Jonathan Hay, liable for conspiring to defraud the U.S. government. The pair made investments in Russia, which were prohibited by their contracts, while part of an HIID program that was advising Moscow on privatizing its economy.The University was also implicated in the lawsuit and settled last August for $26.5 million. Shleifer, who is the Jones professor of economics, agreed to pay $2 million. Neither party acknowledged any liability in their settlements.But the “tawdry Shleifer affair,” as one professor dubbed it at the most recent Faculty meeting, resurfaced...
...president’s rocky relationship with the Faculty flared up again this year at a Feb. 7 Faculty meeting, where professors questioned the circumstances behind Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s Jan. 27 resignation and blasted Harvard’s handling of a government lawsuit implicating Summers’ close friend, Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer...
...that culminated in an unprecedented vote of “lack of confidence.” More recently, Summers drew the Faculty’s ire for his dismissal of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and for lingering allegations of misconduct in his handling of a government lawsuit, implicating Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82, that cost the University $26.5 million...
...They blew it," said Jeff Anderson, a St. Paul, Minnesota attorney who has brought a suit against the archdiocese in the McCormack case. (Lawyers for the Archdiocese couldn't be reached for comment about the lawsuit.) "The fact is that the archdiocese has had a long time to deal with this issue, and here the Cardinal and Bishops are not doing the right thing. This isn?t [just] about the victims anymore. This is about them breaking promises...