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...March, 1992, Visiting Professor of Business Administration Marc J. Epstein and two codefendants were ordered by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to pay $2,694,463.25 to Mitsui Manufacturers Bank...
Last month, exactly one year after the California court's decision, the bank again filed charges against Epstein in Middlesex County Superior Court, charging him with failing to satisfy the judgment...
...preliminary ruling, Superior Court Judge Paul A. Chernoff ordered Harvard to stop Epstein's paychecks for one week last month. It was unclear yesterday whether the court has taken any further action...
Mitsui Manufacturers Bank filed the initial lawsuit in California in 1988, and Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Madelein Flier ruled for the bank on March 3, 1992. But Epstein, whose legal residence is in Houston, left California shortly after the lawsuit was filed to become a full professor at the business school of the Yeshiva University in New York City...
These three are all respectable motivations, up to a point. The instinct to oppose whatever those in power happen to be proposing is democratically healthy. A reluctance to compromise shows intellectual principles. The practice of jumping out of the way of bandwagons is morally superior to the practice of jumping onto them. But a fourth roadblock to hope is less admirable. That is complacency or mental laziness...