[UPDATE] Straus to leave Law School Board
May 1, 2014
UPDATE Thursday, May 1, 10:08 p.m.:
Herrine and Gertner said that while they were unaware of the details surrounding Straus’ departure from the law school, the agreement for him to leave was gratifying.
“We think Daniel Straus’s departure from the board represents an acknowledgment of his insurmountable conflicts of interest and of the overwhelming expression of concern from the NYU Law community — students, faculty and alumni alike,” they said in an email. “It is comforting and gratifying to see that when students are targeted by a trustee, there are consequences.”
Second-year student Maggie Marron, who helped draft the second petition, said it is important to remember that the subpoenas still stand. Herrine and Gertner said they were unaware of whether the subpoenas will be dropped.
“The widespread concern the law school student body demonstrated in recent weeks made it loud and clear that our community wants trustee accountability, to hold all our members to higher ethical standards, and won’t tolerate intimidation of students or workers,” Marron said.
She added that many NYU students stand in solidarity with the CareOne workers.
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Original story as follows:
Daniel Straus and the School of Law have mutually agreed that Straus will leave the Law School Board of Trustees at the end of the academic year on May 22.
Trevor Morrison, the dean of the law school, and Anthony Welters, the chair of the Board of Trustees, announced the decision in an email to the law community earlier this afternoon.
Straus had recently become embroiled in controversy when lawyers from his health care company CareOne, of which he is the owner, subpoenaed two law students in March in an ongoing case against the Service Employees International Union. The law students had circulated a petition calling on the law school to evaluate Straus’ labor practices in regard to CareOne and HealthBridge Management, another health care company he owns.
The law school stepped in and agreed to provide legal counsel and cover any costs the students incurred as a result of the subpoenas. A second petition signed by 500 members of the law community called on Straus to withdraw the subpoenas. CareOne has maintained that Straus is not a part of the litigation.
There have been ongoing student demonstrations calling on the law school to revisit its relationship with Straus since fall 2012.
Check back for updates as the story develops.
Michael Domanico is managing editor. Email him at [email protected].
glen broemer • May 17, 2014 at 12:18 am
Typically operating through Puppets–including puppets in the judiciary–the right wing has for decades been committing crimes and trying to classify them to cover them up, a move explicitly forbidden by the Code of Federal Regulations. The right has accomplished its political objectives by presenting a fraction of the evidence to judicial officials who, having seen the pattern dozens of times before, could not help but realize that they were being presented with incomplete and inaccurate information.
If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth, right? the Democrats’ great accomplishment is producing the political equivalent of a Rodney King video, clearly demonstrating the lies of the right, the right Hilary Clinton correctly identified as a vast conspiracy. Confirm by examining Central District of California Cases, 01-4340, 03-9097, 08-5515, 10-5193, US Tax Court 12000-07L –though I think you want to view my US Tax Court Appeal to the 9th Circuit for a good account of their day to day assaults, a few month time slice indicative of a decade of assault, and 9th Circuit case 11-56043.
glen broemer • May 17, 2014 at 12:18 am
READ NOW. there are right wing censors who follow me around deleting my publications, usually within a day.
With either the willfully blind approval or the willful ignorance of the judiciary the right has killed & stolen several of my pets and routinely shoot energy weaponry at me and my pets. Recent harm to animals include: two kittens from a pregnant stray i took in were killed a few days ago. The remaining two, just 3 weeks old, shake their head as government operatives shoot them with energy weaponry. They shot the eye out or removed the eye of a large really good natured stray at the port, hobbled another cat at the port, shooting it with energy weaponry, and routinely kill and leave dead animals in my path. A few years ago one of them threatened, prophetic, ‘we’ll just kill a cat every so often’, in so many words. This has continued despite my calls to the police, the FBI, Congress, and my petitions in court. In the usual case, it appears that the right goes to a judicial crony for a ruling permitting them to harm animals to retaliate against me for my free speech. There’s no serious argument but that they interfered with my personal life and economic options for 3 decades, so their solution to my noting it is to kill animals. Makes perfect sense right? It does if you’re a sociopathic criminal, criminally stupid, and hawkish. Invariably their lies are exposed and the wrongfulness of the harm is clear to everyone, though not until the animals have been maimed or killed. There is really only one solution, and that’s to disempower them politically.
Order_of_the_Coitus • May 2, 2014 at 12:01 am
Law school is a scam!!!!! DO NOT go unless $200,000+ in non-dischargeable student loan debt, no job, and living in your parents’ basement is your idea of fun. It’s a scam set up to make law administrators and professors wealthy off your federal government loans.
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Ryan • May 1, 2014 at 7:23 pm
Hurray!