Court Backs
Harvard in Plagiarism Challenge
Harvard University did not defame or
breach a contract with a former law school student when it noted a plagiarism
finding on her transcript, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. In its ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the First Circuit upheld a lower court decision dismissing a lawsuit by Megon
Walker, who had alleged that the plagiarism finding should not have applied to
a draft of a note she submitted to a student-run law journal. But Harvard Law
School's plagiarism policy "refers to 'all work submitted,' a phrase that
on its face applies to any student work for any academic or nonacademic
exercise, whether in draft or final form, turned in to an instructor or student
editor of an extracurricular law journal," the First Circuit wrote.
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