Word: sues
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...Coalition for Civil Rights--a group of six minority student organizations and the Women's Law Association--is currently awaiting a decision from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on whether students have the standing to sue their school for discrimination...
...Harvard Law School, the issue of minority hiring is about to explode. A student group is in the Massachusetts Superior Court trying to win legal standing to sue the University. Derrick Bell is calling on Harvard to extend his leave, which he took in order to protest the lack of minority faculty, and is filing discrimination charges with the U.S. Department of Education...
...court will decide if the students have standing to sue their school for discriminatory hiring practices. And if they rule that they can sue Harvard Law School, the case will go into discovery. That will enable students to examine University records to determine whether discrimination has occurred...
...only issue facing the Supreme Judicial Court is whether the students can sue their school. No doubt, the decision here will set a precedent for other universities. Students have certain expectations of a university when they accept admission--just as students are accepted under certain preconditions about their personal qualities...
Students should have standing to sue their schools over contractual violations. If a school claims to have a non-discrimination policy, and the students think that the university isn't following through with this policy in faculty hiring, then they should be able to do something about...