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Chapman said that while the Sierra Club has not yet decided whether to sue to halt Scheme Z, the organization is "looking at [a suit] very hard." The group sued the Artery project over potential air pollution problems last summer, but a state judge delayed the case until the release of the final environmental report...
Members of the Law School's student Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR), who are charging that the school uses hiring practices that discriminate against women and minorities, had subpoenaed Bok and four law professors on December 21, one month after they filed suit. But Thomas Connolly, the judge hearing the case Wednesday, decided that all depositions will be on hold until February 15, when Harvard attorneys will present a motion to dismiss the case...
...everything we asked for today," said Harvard attorney Allan A. Ryan, who is coordinating the University's defense in the suit...
...Wednesday's hearing, Ryan argued that even if the University had used discriminatory hiring practices, the students could not legally bring suit against Harvard because they would not be directly harmed. For that reason, Ryan maintained that Bok and the law professors--Associate Dean Louis Kaplow, Professor of Law Gerald E. Frug, Professor of Law Martha L. Minow and Professor of Law Frank I. Michelman--should not be compelled to testify in the case...
...lawsuit, which was signed by 11 members of the CCR, the students claim that they do in fact have the proper legal standing to file suit because they have been injured by being denied many aspects and perspectives of law they say a more diverse faculty would provide...