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...domestic spying program was exposed by The New York Times in December. As chief of DHS, he is responsible for obtaining and using the intelligence gathered by the NSA. Chertoff, who has vigorously defended the spying program in interviews, has been named as one of the defendants in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights challenging the legality of the program. BACK IN CAMBRIDGE But at Harvard in 1975, Chertoff’s main concern was to defend individual rights from Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy. Chertoff begins his thesis by laying out a historical perspective...
...suppliers for virtually every major chocolate producer in the U.S.--will have to show up in court to answer for allegedly supporting child slavery on West African farms, where 70% of the world's cocoa is grown. The hearing, set for this week in Los Angeles, stems from a lawsuit filed by the International Labor Rights Fund, which is also taking aim at another Valentine's Day staple: lovely bouquets that happen to be laden with pesticides. Some 70% of cut flowers sold in the U.S. are imported, mostly from Colombia and Ecuador. A recent U.N. study found that nearly...
...protest came as the Supreme Court considers a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a federal statute on campus military recruitment...
...Days of notice that New Orleans officials, under pressure from a lawsuit, agreed to give owners of most Katrina-wrecked houses slated for demolition...
...matters of campus-wide importance. To that end, we support efforts by Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios and Representative Timothy J. Toomey to pass legislation that will oblige campus police departments to follow the same free-access policies that already apply to public police departments. In the lawsuit, Harvard argued that the HUPD, as a private entity, should not have to divulge internal records. The SJC agreed with this argument, finding that the state law governing free-access standards does distinguish between public and private police forces. But the pertinent distinction in this matter should not rest...