“Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight to Court”

“Fight Fiercely, Harvard, fight fight fight!”

Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight to Court – NYTimes.com. Which begins:

A group of Harvard students, frustrated by the university’s refusal to shed fossil fuel stocks from its investment portfolios, is looking beyond protests and resolutions to a new form of pressure: the courts.

The seven law students and undergraduates filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Suffolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts against the president and fellows of Harvard College, among others, for what they call “mismanagement of charitable funds.” The 11-page complaint, with 167 pages of supporting exhibits, asks the court to compel divestment on behalf of the students and “future generations.”

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