Radolf v. University of Connecticut

364 F. Supp. 2d 204 (2005)

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Radolf v. University of Connecticut

United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
364 F. Supp. 2d 204 (2005)

Facts

Dr. Justin Radolf (plaintiff) was a tenured professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) and School of Medicine. Radolf established and served as the director of the UCHC Center for Microbial Pathogenesis. The UCHC discovered that Radolf had falsified data on certain grant proposals submitted to both the federal government and private organizations. The University of Connecticut (defendant) placed Radolf on academic probation for three years and began a review of all of Radolf’s grant proposals and contracts for academic and research integrity. The United States Department of Health and Human Services’s Federal Office of Research Integrity (ORI) also began investigating Radolf for misconduct in his research, which resulted in Radolf admitting wrongdoing and accepting five years of academic probation for all activities involving the United States Public Health Service. During this time, Radolf continued to teach as a tenured professor at the UCHC. However, Radolf was subsequently denied the opportunity to participate in the formation of a grant proposal submitted to the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and the research funded by the grant. Radolf filed a lawsuit alleging that his First Amendment right to academic freedom to participate in the DOD grant and research was violated.

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Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Kravitz, J.)

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