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Earlier this fall, Summers received a letter from Lambda, the HLS students’ civil rights group, and another signed by a majority of HLS faculty urging similar action. A handful of HLS professors is currently working with lawyer Walter Dellinger, the former U.S. Solicitor General, to develop a lawsuit...
...first-year Harvard Law School (HLS) student will head to Washington, D.C., today for the final phase of his lawsuit against the State of Washington: oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning...
...Burmese soldiers, who forced villagers to carry heavy loads through the jungle, sometimes for weeks at a stretch. "The government calls us volunteers," he said. "But the truth is, we were slaves." To protect his identity, the rice farmer is known as John Doe No. 8 in a lawsuit in which he and 14 other unnamed victims accuse Unocal of "aiding and abetting" abuses carried out by Burmese soldiers. The villagers, assisted by American labor activists, have asked U.S. courts to award damages that could exceed $1 billion. How Unocal fares in a trial starting this week in a California...
...faculty and students at HLS seem to recognize the high stakes of the judicial decision, and their petition efforts encouraging Harvard to join the lawsuit should be applauded. Members of the Law School’s faculty have promised to file suit against the Pentagon; while this would be a momentous and significant step, such a suit ultimately cannot carry the weight that an official legal challenge from the University would...
Copyright is not meant to be used as a weapon to stifle political speech. But it’s easy to see that universities are placed in a terrible position: either risk a lawsuit for copyright infringement or shut down access to materials without being able to consider whether there’s reason not to do so. Moreover, many students don’t know that a defense exists, much less what to do to initiate, and persevere in, an appeal...