Word: abramian
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...with the union. “He certainly tried to do the best he could for the people he represented, but he was strong-headed,” LaBua recalled yesterday. McCombe also battled Harvard in court, when he took up the cause of a fellow security guard, Viatcheslav Abramian. Abramian complained he was discriminated against as a result of his Russian background. His complaints were dismissed in an internal investigation. In 1997, McCombe testified in the case, in which a Superior Court jury subsequently awarded Abramian $2.9 million. McCombe served as one of the last guards...
McCombe also battled Harvard in court, when he took up the cause of a fellow security guard, Viatcheslav Abramian. Abramian complained he was discriminated against as a result of his Russian background. His complaints were dismissed in an internal investigation...
...McCombe testified in the case, where a Superior Court jury subsequently awarded Abramian $2.9 million...
...jury agreed with Abramian and awarded him over $1.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages. But Harvard appealed the ruling, arguing that the judge in the original case had given incorrect instructions to the jury...
...July, the SJC agreed that the jury instructions were incorrect but upheld the verdict that the University fired Abramian in retaliation for his complaints...