NEWMAN v. COM. OF MASS.

No. 88-1923.

884 F.2d 19 (1989)

Anny NEWMAN, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, et al., Defendants, Appellees, Appeal of Diana BURGIN, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence T. Bench, First Associate Counsel, University of Massachusetts, for defendants, appellants.

Daniel F. Featherston, Jr., with whom Susan S. Riedel was on brief, for plaintiff, appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH and COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judges.


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...

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