Legal Opinion
Anny Newman v. Diana Burgin
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 22, 1991No. 90-1739PublishedCited by 158 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Chief Judge.
In October 1985, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, after considerable investigation and debate, formally “censured” tenured Assistant Professor Anny Newman for “seriously negligent scholarship,” amounting, it said, to “objective plagiarism.” The University punished her by making her censure public and by disqualifying her for five years from serving as an administrator or a member of various academic boards.
Professor Newman then brought this federal civil-rights action, basically claiming that University officials deprived her of “liberty” or “property” without…
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