Times have changed, but the formula remains stuck in 1949. The wealth disparities between neighboring towns simply did not exist at anything like their current scale. The founders of the regional school system could not have foreseen the inequity their formula has imposed on most towns today.
She was employed in jewelry sales, appraising and grading diamonds and colored gemstones in Seattle, Washington; Billings, Montana; and Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Prior to that moment, under common law, a party to a suit was disqualified from testifying at trial based on the belief that the testimony of an “interested” witness would be self-serving and false.
