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After HUCTW won a support staff referendum lastspring, the University contested the validity ofthe vote, accusing organizers of illegalelectioneering. The union victory has been tied upin legal dispute since then; although Judge JoelA. Harmatz upheld the union victory Monday,Harvard may appeal that decision, delayingcontract negotiations indefinitely...
Right-wing and moderate Harvard Law School professors counter that argument, saying that Trubek and Dalton did meet the school's tenure standards. This spring, Bok, acting on the advice of a review committee of experts, upheld the faculty's decision to deny Dalton tenure...
Defending HUCTW's election-day activities to the group, Rondeau said she was confident that when the judge hands down his decision about the University's charges, which is expected in the next month, the May 17 election results will be upheld...
...began over a year ago, when Auckland Investment Banker Michael Fay overturned 30 years of tradition and challenged the San Diego Yacht Club to a one-on-one race, instead of joining a regatta planned for 1991. When a New York State Supreme Court upheld Fay's captious interpretation of the rules, San Diego countered in kind by saying regulations permitted it to defend in a $ catamaran, a multihulled craft usually speedier than a monohull...
...time. Then why has no execution yet taken place in California during her tenure? Bird blames the fuzzy language of the state's 1978 death-penalty initiative and argues that the California Supreme Court has been getting the wrinkles out of the law. Executions will be upheld more easily, she predicts, when trial courts begin applying the justices' guidelines in new cases. "The death penalty is alive and well in California," Bird insists...