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Former Assistant Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz filed a petition for review with the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of Massachusetts on Monday, hoping that the state’s highest court will agree to review a June 6 decision of the Appeals Court of Massachusetts that threw out his civil suit...
Harvard appealed to have the suit dismissed and was denied twice, once in August 2000 and once in January 2001, in the Superior Court of Massachusetts. The second appeal came in the wake of a new decision by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) concerning a tenure despute at Brandeis University...
...understanding is that Professor Berkowitz is filing a petition to ask the SJC to review the appeals court decision,” said Silverglate. “Such petitions statistically are more likely not to be granted. In this case, I think the chances of the SJC refusing to review the appeals court are particularly high because Harvard’s influence on the SJC is so strong...
...while the plant began to provide chilled water and steam in 1981, the engines—whose purpose was to produce electricity—could not yet be turned on, pending a final ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) on the DEQE decision, which had been appealed once again by local activists. Because the plant was only partially operational, its co-generation cost savings remained unrealized as MATEP’s price tag swelled to $230 million...
Finally, after several more hearings considering the potential health costs of the plant—4 people might die of lung cancer over 40 years, they concluded—the SJC ruled to let the plant operate, and the diesels were fired up, despite residents’ claims that Harvard was as “sick...[as] Nazi Germany...