Meng v. Trustees of Boston University

The plaintiff, Meng, was a vice-president at Boston University (university) who resigned his position in July, 1991, to protest what he regarded as the unethical and unprofessional behavior of the university’s president, John Silber, in terminating a recently renewed contract with Linkage Corporation (Linkage). See Linkage Coup. v. Trustees of Boston University, 425 Mass. 1, 11 n.18, cert. denied, 118 S. Ct. 599 (1997). Meng succeeded in this action in recovering a judgment against the university of $195,000 as damages for the university’s failure to implement a package of termination…