DONGGUK UNIVERSITY v. YALE UNIVERSITY

Docket No. 12-2698-cv.

734 F.3d 113 (2013)

DONGGUK UNIVERSITY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. YALE UNIVERSITY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 15, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Kratenstein , McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York, N.Y. ( Robert A. Weiner , McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York, NY, Ira B. Grudberg , Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt, Dow & Katz P.C., New Haven, CT, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Felix J. Springer ( Howard Fetner , on the brief), Day Pitney LLP, Hartford, CT, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: FUENTES, SMITH, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.


FUENTES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns a defamation, negligence, and reckless conduct suit by Dongguk University of South Korea against Yale University over a bogus Ph.D. Dongguk University hired Shin Jeong-ah as an art history professor after Yale mistakenly confirmed her doctoral degree. What started out as a straightforward correspondence between universities about a student who sought to teach at one school and claimed she had graduated from the other school...

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