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...settlement, announced December 22, 1993, ended more than two years of litigation in an antitrust suit which charged MIT with joining the eight Ivy League schools to fix the prices of college educations...
According to court documents, "in 1991, the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department brought this suit alleging that the Ivy (League) Overlap Group unlawfully conspired to restrain trade in violation of section one of the Sherman Act... by (1) agreeing to award financial aid exclusively on the basis of need; (2) agreeing to utilize a common formula to calculate need; and (3) collectively settling, with only insignificant discrepancies, each commonly-admitted student's family contribution toward the price of tuition...
When the Justice Department first brought suit against the Overlap Group in 1991, most schools, including all of the Ivy League institutions, fell into line. But several top college officials, while staying out of MIT's court battle, expressed hope that the school would be successful...
Addressing a question from an audience member about his "non-traditional media image," Sharpton said that he is often misrepresented. "The picture of me in a jogging suit with a medallion was created by the media. I never wore jogging suits, other than to jail--because I didn't want to mess up any of my [formal] suits...
...suit failed at the district court level and on appeal: the seventh circuit, while noting that clinic violence was "reprehensible," refused to let Clayton try to prove that the defendants had committed it. The reasoning: a criminal "enterprise" must be dedicated to economic gain. Last week, however, Rehnquist disagreed. "We do not think this is so," he wrote simply. And "nowhere in ((RICO)) is there any indication that an economic motive is required...