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...three workers were employed by the Harvard maintenance contractor McGarr Services Inc., which Harvard discovered was operating under two company names—McGarr and White Glove Inc.—in a possible effort to skirt University policies regarding parity wage...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Custodians Win Fight for Back Pay | 2/10/2004 | See Source »

...union brought to our attention that McGarr and White Glove were the same ownership,” said James A. LaBua, deputy director of the Office of Labor and Employee Relations (OLER). “Really, they were the same operation...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Custodians Win Fight for Back Pay | 2/10/2004 | See Source »

...questionable wisdom" of bestowing absolute authority on a single person was brought up in passing by U.S. district court Judge Frank McGarr in 1977. But he used that phrase in the process of rejecting a complaint by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley that Kuhn was wrecking him financially by arbitrarily keeping him from liquidating his team a player at a time. Judge McGarr ruled, "So broad and unfettered was the commissioner's discretion intended to be that the owners provided no right of appeal, and even took the extreme step of foreclosing their own access to the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Darkening Cloud over Pete Rose | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...ruling by Judge Frank J. McGarr came in a lawsuit filed four years ago by nearly 100 claimants, including 76 Brittany communities, hotel owners and fishermen. Said one lawyer: "This is an incredible international can of worms. Not only are facts in dispute, but you're dealing with French, American, Spanish, Liberian, West German, and Bermudian entities." The judge found that Amoco had been negligent "with respect to the design, operation, maintenance, repair and crew training" of the tanker. He also blamed the ship's Spanish builder, Astilleros Españoles, for the design and construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: Big Bill for a Big Spill | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...first major case conducted under an international treaty that sets civil liability for oil-pollution damage. Forty nations signed the agreement after the 1967 Torrey Canyon oil spill off the British coast. Under the treaty, Amoco would have had to pay no more than $17 million. But Judge McGarr ruled that a ship owner can be liable for a much higher amount if negligence is involved. The actual level of Amoco's damages will be determined at a separate hearing that will begin on May 31, but the company's lawyers optimistically believe they will not exceed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: Big Bill for a Big Spill | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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