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Judge Dismisses Superconductivity Physicist's Lawsuit Against University
Friday April 26, 2024. 11:20 PM , from Slashdot
On 19 April, Monroe County Supreme Court justice Joseph Waldorf denied Dias's petitions and dismissed the lawsuit as premature. The matter 'is not ripe for judicial review,' Waldorf wrote, because, although Rochester commissioned an independent review that found Dias had committed misconduct, it has not yet finished taking administrative action. The university provost has recommended that Dias be fired, but a final decision is still forthcoming. A spokesperson for the university said Rochester was 'pleased' with the justice's ruling, and reiterated that its investigation was 'carried out in a fair manner' and reached a conclusion that it thinks is correct. Nature's news team reported on Rochester's investigation previously: three scientists external to the university conducted a 10-month probe into 16 allegations against Dias and determined that the physicist had committed plagiarism, and data fabrication and falsification related to four scientific papers, including two published in Nature. Normally, the details of the investigation would probably have remained confidential. But in response to Dias's lawsuit, the university submitted the entire report as a court exhibit, making it public. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1831256/judge-dismisses-superconductivity-physicists-law...
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