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...Club, represented by the Boston law firm Palmer and Dodge, has already filed evidence with MCAD in response to investigative questions, Schkolnick said, adding that she had obtained copies of the club's offical responses to her complaint. According to Schkolnick, the defense affadavits assert that the Fly, which is open only to Harvard undergraduates, is a purely private, social club which has no formal or informal ties with Harvard University, and thus violates no state sex-discrimination laws...
...able to gather on a social basis as long as there is no monopoly of opportunities. I do not believe that such a monopoly exists at the Fly Club." He declined specific comment on the case, and said the club had turned it over to their lawyers. Lawyers at Palmer and Dodge yesterday refused to comment on the case...
...Palmer, who favors bow ties and loud sport coats, it could mean a replay of one of the most profitable chapters in his career. In the early 1990s, when Indian gaming was in its infancy, Palmer and a partner formed Buffalo Brothers Management Inc. to develop and manage two casinos for the St. Croix Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. The company negotiated an agreement to collect 40% of the casinos' total net revenue for running the operations. Then it recommended that the tribe lease slot machines from Interstate Gaming Services Inc., a company that Palmer and his associate happened...
...Instead, the state fired the director. (Some years later, the state paid him $290,000 to settle a lawsuit over the dismissal.) The disgruntled tribe members sued Buffalo Brothers, and by 1994, amid the rancor, the St. Croix Band bought out its contract, reportedly for more than $30 million. Palmer and his partner exited the state very wealthy men. "I was in the right place at the right time," he later told Sarasota magazine...
...Palmer disputes the notion that he took advantage of the tribe and says he was the victim of tribal politics: "We did not do one thing wrong. They lost the case at every level, in every jurisdiction. It was just a smear job." As for the 30% his company received for supplying the slots, he says, "We used all that to pay for the slot machines...