Word: shleifer
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...small victory for Harvard on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock said a jury would have to determine the extent of damages owed by the University, dismissing the government’s contention that Shleifer and Hay’s improprieties undermined the entire project...
...Woodlock, himself a former assistant U.S. attorney, appeared nonplussed, scoffing at Bloom’s “tennis metaphors” and ordering the government to make written settlement demands to Harvard and Shleifer by this Thursday. The two defendants, in turn, must respond with counteroffers by the end of the month...
...Shleifer, who declined to be interviewed on Friday, also faces a three-day trial, slated to begin Dec. 6, which would determine the unresolved issue of the professor’s status in the Russia program at the time of his investments...
...Although Shleifer was a lead adviser to the program, his lawyers, Benjamin E. Rosenberg ’81 and Robert L. Ullman ’77, have argued that he was not “assigned to” Russia and therefore not bound by rules which prohibited investments in the country...
...found to have committed the most serious violations in Woodlock’s summary judgement in June, would nonetheless face the same potential penalties as Shleifer, the judge said Thursday...