Nemani v. St. Louis University

BENTON, Judge.

Rama K. Nemani, Ph.D, sued St. Louis University (SLU) for appropriation of his name. The circuit court entered judgment on the jury’s verdict for $300,000. After opinion by the Court of Appeals, this Court granted transfer. Mo. Const art. V, section 10. Reversed.

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In 1987, SLU hired Nemani as an assistant research professor in the Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science. He held a joint appointment as a research chemist with the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Each year from 1988 to 1996, Nemani and SLU signed a “Memo*185randum of Agreement Research Faculty”…