Virginia DA insists he can subpoena former professor’s research records
JUN 17, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024427
Washington Post : Virginia’s attorney general Ken Cuccinelli argued in a court filing this week that he should indeed be granted access to the research records that Michael Mann kept while a professor at University of Virginia. Mann, an expert in reconstructing past climates, was among several prominent scientists whose leaked e-mails suggested they had doctored data. Cuccinelli, a climate change skeptic, ordered the University of Virginia in April to hand over Mann’s records. The university resisted the order by filing a court appeal in May, arguing that handing over the records imperiled academic freedom. In his new filing, Cuccinelli holds that the leaked e-mails constitute fraud and that neither academic freedom nor the First Amendment immunizes a person from a fraud investigation.
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