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Adams may yet have the last laugh. The retail giant--the nation's biggest private employer--has weathered a yearlong maelstrom of bad press about its employment practices. More than 30 lawsuits have accused it of cheating workers out of overtime pay. In a case in Oregon, the company was found to have forced employees to punch out and then return to work off the clock. A federal investigation discovered that in dozens of stores Wal-Mart used contractors that hired illegal immigrants. Now a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that a sex-discrimination lawsuit filed...
Woodlock concluded that the University, which is also a defendant in the federal government’s lawsuit, is liable for breaching the USAID contract due to its employees’ misconduct. But he absolved Harvard of responsibility for the more significant charges of intentional fraud under the False Claims Act, which might have subjected it to triple punitive damages of up to $102 million...
...University was encouraged by the court’s conclusion that at no time did Harvard know of or engage in any fraudulent conduct, a position which Harvard has been asserting to the government since the inception of the lawsuit,” he said. “As to the breach of contract claim, even that is a function of conduct of which the University was unaware...
...October, against the backdrop of the lawsuit, the University organized a committee of students, administrators and an outside expert to evaluate HUPD’s privacy policies and recommend changes. The committee’s final report, released on June 1, recommended that HUPD provide more detailed information in its police logs but continue to limit access to incident reports. The report also called for HUPD to release aggregate statistics about suicides and attempted suicides...
Recently, Harvard has been trying to deprive the community of important crime information by preventing access to the same records that every municipal police force in Massachusetts releases to the public. The Crimson filed a lawsuit last summer to gain access to the crime records, and the University has said it will fight through the court system to prevent the public from gaining access to them...