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Lawyer sues Harvard Law School for defamation over article in law journal

donal brown May 10, 2012

A lawyer with a degree from Harvard Law School is suing the school for defamation alleging that they falsely accused her of plagiarism in submitting an article to the law school’s Journal of Law and Technology. The lawyer claims a draft of her article was damaged when a virus invaded her computer, and the editors published it without giving her a chance to finish her work. She was accused of failing to give proper credit

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Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age

FAC August 2, 2010

At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site’s frequently asked questions page about homelessness — and did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page did not include author information. The New York Times News August 2, 2010 By Trip Gabriel At DePaul University, the tip-off to one student’s copying was the purple shade of several paragraphs he had lifted from the Web; when

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