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Harvard appealed to have the suit dismissed and was denied twice, once in August 2000 and once in January 2001, in the Superior Court of Massachusetts. The second appeal came in the wake of a new decision by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) concerning a tenure despute at Brandeis University...
...domestic ones, is sketchy at best. He once told me that the school-voucher movement was Southern, white and conservative, even though it is predominantly Northern, urban and African American. He isn't above political opportunism of the basest sort - he has changed his position on free trade to suit Iowa's protectionist labor skates, and a cynic might argue that his position on Iraq was a clever response to a market void. But Dean is a master of the snappy formulation. He tells audiences, for example, that the President's tax cuts will "raise local property taxes and reduce...
...claims, were indignant enough to consider switching from Oracle Database to its Microsoft and IBM rivals. The idea of Oracle splashing out $5.1 billion on PeopleSoft also unnerved investment analysts at Moody's, who downgraded the firm's outlook for Oracle from stable to negative; however, few investors followed suit. Oracle's stock rose to $13.48 at the end of the week, up 3% over the previous week's close...
FILED. A $100 MILLION LAWSUIT, by J.K. ROWLING, 37, author, and by SCHOLASTIC, U.S. publisher; against the New York Daily News, after the tabloid published details about the plot of the new, fifth Harry Potter book; in New York City. The suit claims that the newspaper damaged Rowling's intellectual-property rights and harmed Scholastic's $3 million global marketing campaign. Booksellers worldwide had to sign an agreement with the publisher, forbidding them from selling any copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix until 12:01 a.m. Greenwich mean time on June...
...affirmative action opponents, Blum said he and other groups would continue to oppose race in admissions, but focus their attention on summer programs and scholarships that are given only to minorities. Other groups, too, may continue to file suits against college affirmative actions programs. Because the decision doesn't completely outlaw affirmative action or permit it in all cases, students are likely to file suit against other colleges, arguing that their affirmative action programs favors race too much and doesn't focus enough on the individual applicant as the Court calls on universities...