Kirk Perry, the attorney representing Delucas Lucas, has been charged with lying under oath. In a March 2 hearing, Perry will be tried on three counts of falsification involving the accusation that he made up a firm to explain how court costs would be paid.
Perry is accused of claiming to work for the firm "Perry and Brooks" of Cleveland when asked how he would pay a $1,575 court bill last year. No such firm exists.
According to the Plain Dealer, Perry denied that he intended to deceive the court. If convicted of the misdemeanor charge, he could have his license suspended.
Perry has represented numerous plantiffs against Oberlin College including former neuroscience professor David Holtzman sued the College for racial discrimination two years ago. It was during this trial in October of 1996 that stenographers were hired to record depositions. Perry allegedly refused to pay the stenographer fees, which led to those court reporters filing suit in small claims court against Perry.
In small claims court, the referee ruled that Perry should indeed pay the bill, and it was following this ruling that Perry allegedly claimed to have worked for Perry and Brooks.
According to the Plain Dealer, Perry claimed that he worked with Robert Brooks and that they briefly formed a company.
Oberlin will celebrate women's history month this March with the visit of leading feminist philosopher Linda Martin Alcoff.
Alcoff is a philosophy professor at Syracuse University and current chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Hispanics. During her three-day residency in Oberlin, Alcoff will give lectures and discussions pertaining to feminism, race and feminist theory.
The first lecture begins this Thursday and is entitled "Is Identity a Problem? The Pathologizing of Identity in Contemporary Political Discourses."
Alcoff is the co-editor of the three books Feminist Epistemologies (1993), Epistemology: The Big Question (1999) and Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (1996).
She is also the author of many articles on topics concerning sexual violence, the politics of knowledge, and gender and race identity which will serve as the foundation of her forthcoming book, Visible Identities.
The lecture series is sponsored by the College's Women's Studies Program. Copies of a publication of Alcoff will be available in the Women's Studies office to be discussed at a brown-bag lunch and workshop on Friday.
Copyright © 1998, The Oberlin Review.
Volume 127, Number 14, February 19, 1998
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