Legal Opinion

Abbs v. Sullivan

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided May 1, 1992No. Nos. 91-1923, 91-1924 and 91-2149PublishedCited by 84 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This case grows out of an investigation by the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Scientific Integrity into alleged scientific misconduct by Dr. James Abbs, a professor of neurology at the University of Wisconsin and the director of the national shared x-ray microbeam laboratory there. The laboratory studies the neurology of human speech with the aid of techniques that, we are told without contradiction, make it the only facility of its kind in the world. Abbs’s research is supported by the National Institutes of Health (a branch of the Public Health Service of…

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