Missing Legal Deadline May Cost Harvard Millions

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Adam Liptak, Missing Legal Deadline May Cost Harvard Millions. New York Times, Oct 23, 2022, at page A20.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/ ... itigation-cost.html
https://www.yahoo.com/now/blunde ... -may-142704206.html
("That policy had a $25 million limit, after Harvard paid [the premium of] $2.5 million")

Note:
(a)
(i) Mr Liptak is the New York Times reporter assigned to cover United States Supreme Court.
(ii)
(A) Adam Liptak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Liptak
(1960; BA in English and JD, both from Yale)

In between,he was a copy boy with New York Times.
(B) copy boy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_boy

In the ages before computers, "[r]eporters typed their stories on slips of butcher's paper."

The butcher's paper or butcher paper can be waxed or unwaxed.

(b) "In Harvard's dispute with its insurer, Lat said, real and fictional alumni, including the protagonist of 'Legally Blonde,' would not bet on their alma mater.  'As a Harvard alum myself, it pains me to say this, but this isn't a complicated case,' he said. 'You don't need to be Elle Woods to see the university is probably going to lose.' "
(i) Earlier in the report, Mr Lat was introduced as "David Lat, a legal commentator."

David Lat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lat
(1975- ; son of Filipino doctors; BA in English from Harvard and Yale Law School)
(ii) Legally Blonde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legally_Blonde  
(a 2001 film; "The story follows Elle Woods ([played by Reese] Witherspoon), a sorority girl who attempts to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner Huntington III ([Matthew] Davis) by getting a Juris Doctor degree at Harvard Law School, and in the process, overcomes stereotypes against blondes and triumphs as a successful lawyer")

(c)
(i) President and Fellows of Harvard College v Zurich American Insurance Co, US Dist Ct (D.Mass.) No 21-cv-11530 (presided by District Judge Allison D Burroughs; subject jurisdiction: diversity of citizenship (plaintiff and defendant are in different states or foreign country), because Harvard is based in Massachusetts and Zurich American is headquartered in Zurich; cause of action was contract)
https://dockets.justia.com/docke ... :2021cv11530/238185

Note that federal courts' dockets are actually arranged chronologically.
(ii) Many corporations, including universities, registered (the legal term is: "are incorporated as") different from the names we are familiar with. For example, Harvard University is "President and Fellows of Harvard College," and Tufts University "Trustees of Tufts College." These are the legal names. Similarly, doing business as Xfinity, Comcast Cable is the legal entity that can sue and be sued.