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Harvard University filed a motion last week to recover some of the legal costs it incurred while defending itself against a discrimination lawsuit filed by a black female library assistant...
...illegal immigrants who got diplomas from U.S. high schools this spring. They graduated into a furor over in-state tuition, one of the fiercest debates over immigration policy today. Illegal aliens can qualify for in-state tuition rates in nine states, including Texas, Kansas and California. But a lawsuit challenging Kansas' law and the failure of legislatures to approve similar policies in 18 other states this year reflect widespread unease about such benefits. Proponents in most of those 18 states plan to try again next session. Massachusetts' bill is still alive, but Governor Mitt Romney has said he will veto...
...government’s six-year-old lawsuit charges the nation’s six largest tobacco companies with having conspired over the past 50 years to deceive the public about the dangers and addictiveness of smoking...
...lawsuit has been a thorn in the University’s side ever since the government terminated its contract with Harvard in 1997. The Harvard Institute for International Development, which had run the Russia program, folded in the wake of the scandal, and Shleifer’s reputation was suddenly undermined...
Harvard and Shleifer faced separate ultimate judgments, but as a practical matter, their fates were intertwined. Lawyers for both the University and the professor worked closely since the start of the lawsuit, and Harvard participated in Shleifer’s defense at a brief trial this December that resolved a technical issue in the case...