ABBS v. SULLIVAN

Nos. 91-1923, 91-1924 and 91-2149.

963 F.2d 918 (1992)

James H. ABBS and Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 1, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl E. Gulbrandsen (argued), Richard L. Bolton, Stroud, Stroud, Willink, Thompson & Howard, Madison, Wis., for James H. Abbs.

Charles D. Hoornstra, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), James E. Doyle, Atty. Gen., Waltraud A. Arts, Asst. Atty. Gen., Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, Wis., for Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin System.

Marsha Edney, John F. Daly, Steve Frank (argued), Stuart M. Gerson, Sheila Lieber, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., Patrick J. Fiedler, U.S. Atty., Madison, Wis., for Louis W. Sullivan et al.

Before CUMMINGS, CUDAHY, and POSNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This case grows out of an investigation by the National Institutes of Health's Office of Scientific Integrity into alleged scientific misconduct by Dr. James Abbs, a professor of neurology at the University of Wisconsin and the director of the national shared x-ray microbeam laboratory there. The laboratory studies the neurology of human speech with the aid of techniques that, we are told without contradiction, make it the only facility of its...

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