Legal Opinion
Anny Newman v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Appeal of Diana Burgin
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 28, 1989No. 88-1923PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Anny Newman, a tenured professor at the University of Massachusetts, was accused of publishing a plagiarized article. She claims the university wrongly censured her, and she therefore brought this suit against four university employees alleging the violation of federal and state civil rights laws, and, as to one, state tort law. The district court denied the defendants’ motions for summary judgment, which included a request that they be granted qualified immunity, and this interlocutory appeal followed. We find that the defendants are entitled to…
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