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...reports, conversations with activists and direct observation. Consider Walter Walker v. Consumer's Power. Walker was a Black engineer who was fired from a Michigan utility after being passed over seven times for promotion. The defendant never refuted the charge, Supported by 136 exhibits entered into evidence, that the plaintiff was more qualified by a wide margin than the white males who were promoted. Acting as his own attorney, he won before an all-white jury...
What happened next is a textbook illustration of how people can manipulate the media and why journalists must do their own homework before giving extended airtime to uncorroborated allegations. According to a source familiar with the case, the plaintiff's lawyer had rushed to file the suit in hopes of having it included in an imminent CNN special on priests and sex. Indeed, plaintiff Steven Cook, 35, had been made available for an exclusive CNN interview. Sure enough, when the suit was filed the next day, Nov. 12, CNN aired the interview with Cook, who said he had repressed...
Bill Cavellini, a Cambridge taxi-driver who is a member of the Campaign for Affordable Housing and Tenant Protections and a plaintiff in the pro-rent control suit, said that an appeal in the highly contentious case is likely...
Kaufman said he will be a plaintiff in a soon-to-be-filed lawsuit challenging the anti-rent control referendum as a violation of the home-rule guarantee embodied in the state's constitution...
City Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, who is a plaintiff in the pro-rent control suit against the secretary of state, said those supporting the referendum are "trying to undermine the authority of Cambridge...