Legal Opinion
Stebbings v. University of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided March 14, 2000No. 1 — 99 — 1835PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE COUSINS
delivered the opinion of the court:
The plaintiff, Dr. James Stebbings, was employed as a medical researcher by the University of Chicago. He claims to have discovered that, in the course of an experiment, human test subjects were exposed without their permission to levels of radiation much higher than had been approved. Dr. Stebbings alleges that he was fired for insisting that the matter be reported to the National Institutes of Health, the federal government agency that had funded the experiment.
In 1992, Dr. Stebbings brought a retaliatory discharge action against…
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