Word: suits
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...main issues between the two are their experience and views of the attorney general's office. The attorney general serves as the chief law enforcer of Massachusetts and represents the state in any suit or civil proceeding...
...Hampers' major campaign setbacks came from Bellotti's office in the form of a letter concerning a fired employee's suit against the Department of Revenue. The memo, which Hampers sent to the attorney general's office while she was revenue commissioner, referred to Benjamen Rosales, who contested his firing as the department's legal counsel by Hampers' predecessor. The letter implies that Hampers was willing to settle out of court although the department had a good chance of defeating the suit. She denied signing it until three independent handwriting experts determined that the signature was genuine...
...Robertson's discussing his father's string pulling. (Robertson Sr., who served in the Senate from 1946 to 1966, died in 1971.) "We are going to have to do something to put this thing down," said a Robertson aide earlier this month. "It's getting out of hand." The suits dramatize Robertson's intention to fight any hint that he sought to evade combat duty in Korea. In libel cases, however, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff. It is likely to be difficult for Robertson to prove that his father did not use senatorial influence to protect...
...federal judge yesterday told Harvard that before the end of next week it must finish handing over replacements of destroyed documents involved in a sex discrimination suit against the University...
Harvard is under court-order to give the papers to attorneys of former Associate Business School Professor Barbara Bund Jackson, who contends in a 1984 suit that she was denied tenure at the Business School because...