Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paucity of minority and women professors on campus-approximately two dozen out of 350 tenured faculty-as well as the Isaaes lawsuit and Harvard's continued low yield of minority student admissions sparked the student interest in affirmative action this year, Wilkins said...
...questions already. But for Fred L. Worth of Sacramento, Calif., this happened last June on his first time around. The queries were familiar, Worth claims, because he wrote them. Last week in Los Angeles federal court Worth slapped the Canadian creators of the game with a $300 million lawsuit, charging copyright infringement. A former air-traffic controller, Worth is the author of nine books on trivia and currently writes for the ABC quiz show Trivia Trap...
...three years after Skocpol's departure for the University of Chicago--where she recently gained a full professorship--President Bok is assembling an ad hoc committee of scholars to reconsider her tenure. And, according to sources close to the process, the president is stepping very carefully to avoid a lawsuit...
...complex lawsuit has been called the final battle of the Viet Nam War, a legal struggle over key questions of culpability for America's most agonizing military defeat. Yet there is even more at stake as the case of General William Westmoreland vs. CBS News opens this week in a marble-encased Manhattan federal courtroom. Ultimately in question is the unfettered freedom of the U.S. press to examine critically actions of the nation's Government and public figures, as well as the public's growing impatience with perceived abuses of that freedom. It is likely...
Holmes had hoped to make his first fight this year for promoter Don King against the WBA titleholder from South Africa. But that fight was blocked, at least temporarily, when Holmes lost a lawsuit filed by Virginia attorney Richard Hirschfeld...