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...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...
Former Louisiana State Rep. David Duke a formerKu Klux Klan leader, will also appear on theRepublican ballot. The American Civil LibertiesUnion had threatened to sue if his name was notincluded...
...sympathetic policeman helped him type the first legal filing. He was given court-appointed lawyers; and a former town councilwoman, Marge Brady, offered advice and support. "The thing that set Richard off against the town was the fact that they didn't take him seriously when he threatened to sue," she says. "That really inspired...