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[[underline]] Dance [[/underline]] v. [[underline]] Ripley [[/underline]] (racial discrimination) - Filed August 1978 in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Massachusetts. Pretrial discovery proceedings in process.

[[underline]] Lucas [[/underline]] v. [[underline]] Ripley [[/underline]] (class action - sex and racial discrimination) - Filed July 1978 in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia. Decisions on cross motions for summary judgment and petition for denial of class certification pending.

[[underline]] Petition of the United States on behalf and for the benefit of the Smithsonian Institution, Trustee [[/underline]] (petition for construction of provisions of the J. Seward Johnson and Hunterdon Medical Center School of Health gifts) - Filed February 1977 in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia. Decision issued January 31, 1980; order and judgment on the decision entered February 29, 1980. Further decision pending on proposed orders regarding the proper allocation of Endowment Fund No. 3 between the Johnson and Hunterdon gifts and upon the amount of reimbursement due Harbor Branch Foundation for its expenses since January 1, 1977, as well as other pertinent issues.

[[underline]] Scherer [[/underline]] v. [[underline]] Ripley [[/underline]] (sex discrimination)-Filed October 1977 in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia. Trial held November 7-8, 1979. Decision of the court pending.

[[underline]] Thomas [[/underline]] v. [[underline]] United States [[/underline]] (patent infringement) - Filed January 1980 in the U.S. Court of Claims. Pretrial discovery proceedings in process.

[[underline]] United States [[/underline]] v. [[underline]] Tougas [[/underline]] (to recover proceeds of sales of federal excess property) - Filed October 1976 in the U.S.D.C. for the District of Arizona (Tucson Division). Pretrial discovery proceedings in process (after denial of motion for summary judgment of the United States).

CASES DISPOSED OF:

1. [[underline]] Harden [[/underline]] v. [[underline]] United States [[/underline]]

This suit, filed in the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia on January 15, 1980, grew out of a tort claim for property damage to an automobile resulting from an accident involving a Smithsonian driver. The Smithsonian Tort Claims Committee could find no negligence by the Smithsonian and the claim was denied. Trail was held on September 26, 1980. Judge John Lewis Smith concluded on October 3, 1980, that there was no evidence of negligence by the Smithsonian driver and decided the case in favor of the Institution.

2. [[underline]] Hart [[/underline]] v. [[underline]] National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution [[/underline]]

The National Museum of American Art (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts), a bureau of the Smithsonian, is named beneficiary in a handwritten document executed by Alma W. Thomas in February 1978, just prior to her death. This document was presented to the Probate Court of the District of Columbia by the Smithsonian as a possible codicil to a will executed by Ms. Thomas in July