The University of Rochester and the group suing it for the way it handled sexual harassment complaints against a professor squared off this week, filing additional court documents and statements impugning each other. Monday was the deadline for UR to ...

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The professors who filed a complaint of sexual harassment and retaliation against the University of Rochester in August have now filed a federal lawsuit pursuing the same claims. The suit, filed Friday, Dec. 8, and the original Equal Employment Opportunity ...

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The University of Rochester has filed $1.5 million suit against a Boston architecture firm, charging that it made costly mistakes in the design of the new Wegmans Hall for science and engineering. The suit, filed in NYS Supreme Court in ...

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The University of Rochester’s Board of Trustees has appointed a special committee to oversee an independent investigation into an equal employment opportunity commission (EEOC) complaint against professor T. Florian Jaeger. The complaint, filed Sept. 1, characterizes Jaeger as a manipulative ...

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University of Rochester President Joel Seligman and a group of complainants have exchanged criticism following an equal employment opportunity commission (EEOC) complaint that alleged sexual misconduct by a professor in the school’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and inaction ...

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A federal judge has certified a class action lawsuit claiming patients were overcharged for copies of their medical records in violation of New York state law. The defendants are the University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital and Highland Hospital — ...

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A former University of Rochester student who was kidnapped and tortured in December 2015 is suing the nine people convicted in the case for $10 million. Nicholas Kollias, 23, who is from Northbrook, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, was a ...

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CHICAGO — A 23-year-old man is rebuilding his life in Chicago after his future was upended during a violent encounter while he attended college in Rochester. Northbrook native Nicholas Kollias was a senior at the University of Rochester when he ...

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Four people convicted of charges stemming from the kidnapping and torture of two University of Rochester students have been sentenced to prison. The two men and two women were convicted last month of kidnapping two male University of Rochester students ...

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Narayana Kocherlakota, Lionel W. McKenzie Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and James E. Glassman, managing director and head economist for commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co., will ...

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Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the trial of four people charged with kidnapping and torturing two University of Rochester students in Rochester late last year. Rochester police rescued the two students from a house in the city in ...

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The fifth of nine people charged in the abduction and assault of two University of Rochester students has pleaded guilty in exchange for a 35-year prison sentence. The Monroe County District Attorney’s Office says 24-year-old Dennis Perez will be sentenced ...

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