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Fried, Carter professor of general jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, served as solicitor general in the Reagan administration from 1985 to 1989. A Cambridge resident, he was an active and vocal opponent of rent control...
...Rent control supporters hope their protests will pressure Weld to nominate another candidate, saying Fried would be an unacceptable choice...
...Fried approached the whole question of rent control with what can only be described as ideological fervor," said Michael H. Turk, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants Union, one of the groups opposing Fried. "This was someone who had an agenda, which essentially meant wiping out tenant protections, and he was essentially hell-bent on doing...
...critics are especially angered by Fried's legal assistance to real estate interests during one of the three court challenges to Question 9, the state referendum that abolished rent control...
Charles A. Ash, a Cambridge rent control tenant, filed suit against the state attorney general last summer, charging that revocation of the rent control laws would violate the local autonomy of Cambridge, Boston and Brookline, the three communities with rent control laws...