Legal Opinion
Doe v. Brown University
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided June 27, 2016No. C.A. No. 15-239-M-PASPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JOHN J. MCCONNELL, JR., United States District Judge
Jane Doe, a senior at Brown University, was caught cheating on a take-home exam and admitted as much in a letter to the University’s Academic Code Committee. Applying the Academic Code, Brown conducted a hearing and imposed a punishment that was harsher than Jane Doe likely expected, because this turned out to be her second incident of plagiarism in her four years on campus. Despite this history of academic dishonesty, the University permitted Jane Doe to graduate on time with a Brown University degree. Rather than move…
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