Legal Opinion
Alvin v. Suzuki
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 12, 2000No. 99-3245UnknownCited by 211 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Chief Judge.
John D. Alvin, Ph.D, a tenured professor at the University of Pittsburgh (“UPitt” or “the University”), started and operated two successful pharmaceutical companies, Pharmakon, Inc. (“PKI”) and Pharmakon, R & D (“PRD”), which competed with university-related commercial activities. He brought this civil rights action alleging that the University contrived to deny him the benefits that inhere in a tenured position to punish him for his entrepreneurial activity. Alvin alleges that he was deprived of expected pay increases, access to work with graduate…
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