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Marshall has also come under fire for some of her actions as Harvard's General Counsel. When some University guards filed complaints against Harvard, she picked her own former law firm to handle the investigation. Her subsequent report found that the University was not guilty of misconduct; but in 1997, a jury found that the racial discrimination that one guard had complained of led to his dismissal in 1993. Admittedly, Marshall showed poor judgement in selecting her former law firm to handle the investigation, but in this case, no permanent harm seems to have been done. It is also noteworthy...
...barn door is finally being bolted. On Wednesday, more than 100 Japanese police officers swooped down on the nuclear facility near Tokyo that was the scene last week of the country's worst-ever atomic accident. Meanwhile, the government was reportedly planning to revoke the license of the JCO company, which runs the Tokaimura plant. The criminal investigation stems from the fact that the accident ? reportedly caused by eight times the normal amount of uranium being added to a chemical mix ? occurred when workers were following a safety manual illegally revised by the company to allow the transfer of nuclear...
...medical school and in the biology labs, SSI guards reported to their own supervisors, who in turn report to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and the physical resource managers of the faculties...
Marshall's report found no misconduct on Harvard's part, but in 1997, a jury ruled differently and ordered Harvard to pay over $2 million in compensation to one of the guards. The jury found that the racial discrimination that Viatcheslav Abramian complained of seven years ago led to his dismissal...
University officials defended Marshall's conduct, saying she called for a report voluntarily out of a desire to get to the bottom of the issue...