Stanford University general counsel Debra Zumwalt reportedly hoped to prevent further legal filings against her and other Stanford trustees.
Courts have thrown out a request from Stanford University general counsel Debra Zumwalt for a prevention order prohibiting additional lawsuits from automated medical assistant developer MedWhat against her or any other Stanford trustees, Analytics Insight reported yesterday.
It marks the latest development in MedWhat’s case against Stanford for allegedly abusing Stanford-StartX Fund to covertly violate the terms of its tax exemption as an eligible nonprofit body.
Several trustees from Stanford’s endowment have come under fire directly for supposed conflicts-of-interest, prompting the legal team to seek a court bar on such subpoenas on the grounds that the trustees were not financial compensated for their activities. In the end, the court decided otherwise.
Subsequent to the decision, MedWhat moved new charges against Stanford’s trustees and Zumwalt relating to alleged tax fraud and money laundering. Its attorneys reportedly sought to substantiate purported levels of corruption in the endowment’s upper echelons,…
