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HARVARD LAW SCH. v. PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COL.

413 Mass. 66 (1992)

595 N.E.2d 316

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL COALITION FOR CIVIL RIGHTS & others vs. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 9, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caroline Witcoff, pro se.

Laura Hankins, pro se.

Allan A. Ryan, Jr., for the defendant.

The following submitted a joint brief for amici curiae.

Ozell Hudson, Jr., Richard J. Yurko, Richard R. Lavin, Phyllis N. Crockett, Sharon D. Gillis & John W. Banse, for Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law of the Boston Bar Association.

Antonia Hernandez of California, for Mexican-American Legal Defense & Education Fund.

Geraldine S. Hines, for National Conference of Black Lawyers.

Arthur Kinoy, for National Lawyers' Guild - Massachusetts Chapter.

Linda Gadsby of New York, for National Black Law Students Association - Northeast Region.

Claire Gonzalez of the District of Columbia, for National Council of La Raza.

Paula Ettelbrick of New York, for Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc.

Joan Gibbs of New York, for Center for Constitutional Rights.

Elisabeth Ryder Benjamin of New York, for Coalition for Diversity in Legal Education/Columbia & others.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

LYNCH, J.

The plaintiffs, Harvard Law School Coalition for Civil Rights (coalition) and individual students from Harvard Law School, appeal from the dismissal of their first amended complaint under Mass. R. Civ. P. 12 (b) (6), 365 Mass. 754 (1974), seeking equitable relief for the allegedly discriminatory faculty hiring policies of Harvard Law School (law school) in violation of G.L.c. 151B (1990 ed.) and G.L.c. 93, § 102 (1990 ed.). In dismissing the complaint...

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