Desiree Goodwin vs Harvard
1:03-cv-11797-JLT
Desiree Goodwin
vs.
The President and Fellows
of Harvard College
Harvard Administration works in mysterious ways
its blunders to conceal
Boston. Jackie Benson Jones, Special Assistant to President Lawrence H. Summers, testified that she was told to stop working on an internal probe of Ms. Goodwin’s afirmative action complaint because the case had gone to the General Counsel’s Office. This confirmed allegations made by attorneys for Ms. Desiree Goodwin, that Harvard Assistant General Counsel Eileen Finan had compromised the integrity of proceedings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by having secret talks with the Commission even before Ms Goodwin approached them. This followed a surprise motion on Monday, which excluded about half of the witnesses for Ms. Goodwin. In the second week of trial, outside counsel for Harvard administration, supervised by Ms. Finan, filed a motion to exclude witnesses that had been on the witness list well before the beginning of trial. “This is unfair surprise!” exclaimed Attorney Jon Margolis, of Rodgers, Powers, and Schwartz. “In thirty years of practice, I’ve never seen anything like this!” The usual practice is for the witness lists for both sides to be frozen before the trial begins.
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