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Shleifer faced the lawsuit for some under-the-table investments he made in Russia while leading a U.S.-funded program to privatize the economy there in the 1990s. Conflict of interest provisions in Shleifer’s contract with the government explicitly forbid him from investing in the very economy he was in charge of developing. Harvard was also named in the suit and this summer agreed to pay $26.5 million, the largest settlement in the school’s history, according to a University spokesman...
Another name absent from the list of signatories was Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who has been an active opponent to the Solomon Amendment since he urged the University to file its own lawsuit against the government last October...
...ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of more than two dozen law schools that oppose the Solomon Amendment. Harvard is not a member of FAIR, and Summers has said that the University will not file a suit against the federal government challenging the Solomon Amendment...
...ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of more than two dozen law schools that oppose the Solomon Amendment. Harvard is not a member of FAIR, and Summers has said that the University will not file a suit against the federal government challenging the Solomon Amendment...
...plaintiffs claiming to be descendants of a brother of Pandey, the film's central character and a hero of a 19th century uprising against the British, filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court on Sept. 1 in the hope of stopping the movie from showing. They charge that it impugns their ancestor's character, and they're seeking nominal damages from the director, screenwriter, producer and two co-stars. The lawsuit came after the film had already been blasted by critics and academics, as well as by indignant politicians from Pandey's home state, Uttar Pradesh. In fact...