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...which has a 130-year tradition of tuition reimbursement to students who attend secular private high schools when there is no public high school in their district, does not extend that reimbursement to parents who choose, under the same circumstances, to send their kids to religious private schools. The plaintiff parents claim their children's religious freedom is violated by the state's refusal to help pay for religious schooling; last June, Vermont's Supreme Court ruled that funding such schooling would violate the state's constitutional commitment to the separation of church and state...
...settlement is good news for Dow Corning - the plan allows it to pay back its creditors and return to business. Not just yet, though: The specifics of the bankruptcy ruling, to be released next week, could raise some hackles and send the settlement to appeal. Particularly if the plaintiff groups (or their lawyers) feel slighted by their share of the damages...
Kelleher claims she was fired in retribution for her discrimination complaint, but Harvard's attorney disputes the plaintiff's characterization of the case...
...making generalizations about depression," Ryan said. "We are focusing on the plaintiff as [the case] regards...
...lawsuit alleges that the school knew about but failed to prevent a pattern of "insults, indignities, physical assault and humiliating treatment which went far beyond any need to toughen, strengthen or acclimate plaintiff to the rigors of military discipline." The academy maintains that the women were hazed no harder than average students, and points to the success of the two female graduates and the 15 percent dropout rate of the entering class in 1996. But Mentavlos?s lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, contends that the treatment she received was gender-specific, such as having her shirt set on fire so cadets could...