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Showing posts with label Harvard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harvard. Show all posts
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Descendants of slaves imaged in daguerreotypes may sue Harvard for emotional distress, high court rules

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Harvard Yard (Daderot. CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The Lanier family, whose enslaved ancestors were stripped and forcibly photogra...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Justices test Harvard property claims, as civil rights attorney pleads passionately for return of slave images

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Lanier's story in a 2020 short by Connecticut Public This morning the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in the c...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Death case against Robinhood tests common law disfavor for liability upon negligence leading to suicide

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U.S. CFPB images The family of a 20-year-old college student who committed suicide has sued the lately notorious Robinhood financial ser...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Court refuses to dismiss Harvard in student-suicide suit

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The Massachuetts Superior Court, per Judge Michael D. Ricciuti, denied Harvard University's motion to dismiss a negligence claim brought...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was kind of a pompous ass

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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ( FJC ), “the great dissenter,” was kind of a pompous ass.  That probably should not have surprised ...
Friday, October 7, 2016

'Intentional Investment in Abnormally Dangerous Activities'? Not today, Mass. App. says in climate-change suit

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A Massachusetts appeals panel affirmed dismissal in a climate change-related suit by Harvard students against the university. Almost two y...