Information on the Consequences of Plagiarism

Napolitano v. Trustees of Princeton U., 453 A.2d 263 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 1982) (upholding university’s finding that student plagiarized a large majority of a submitted paper and upholding university’s penalty of withholding student’s degree for one year)
 
In re Harper, 645 N.Y.S.2d 846 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996) (disciplining attorney for failing to disclose on his NY bar application that he was dismissed from a L.L.M. degree program because he was found to have plagiarized a paper)
 
In re Steinberg, 620 N.Y.S.2d 345 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994) (ordering public censure of attorney who submitted written work that he borrowed from other attorneys and submitted to the court as his own work product)
 
Pagan Velez v. Laboy Alvarado, 145 F. Supp. 2d 146 (D.P.R. 2001) (stating that attorney’s plagiarism of 66% of his brief was “reprehensible” and “intolerable”)
 
In re Zbiegien, 433 N.W.2d 871 (Minn. 1988) (investigating an incident of plagiarism while an applicant was in law school delayed the applicant’s bar application for one year while the committee conducted its investigation and the committee’s finding of being unfit to practice law was litigated and reversed)
 
In re Lamberis, 443 N.E.2d 549 (Ill. 1982) (censuring attorney for plagiarizing a thesis paper in a L.L.M. program and stating “sanctions are appropriate and required because both the extent of the appropriated material and the purpose for which it was used evidence the respondent’s complete disregard for values that are most fundamental in the legal profession”)
 
Iowa Supreme Court Bd. of Prof’l Ethics & Conduct v. Lane, 642 N.W.2d 296 (Iowa 2002) (suspending attorney for six months for plagiarizing a brief that was submitted to the court as his own work, which was an intentional misrepresentation to the court, especially when attorney requested attorney fees for eighty hours of work on the plagiarized brief)