A federal lawsuit filed by a Michigan State University professor accusing his supervisor of making false allegations of professional misconduct and using those allegations as a pretext to remove him from a grant-funded project was dismissed by a judge earlier this week.
James Anthony, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, claimed that when his department head removed him from a $1.4 million research project, he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in income, had trouble securing new grants, and sawhis reputation damaged. He also claimed that he wasn’t given enough time to respond to the allegations of misconduct.
In a judgment handed down in the U.S. District Court of Western Michigan on Jan. 20, Judge Jane Beckering concluded that Anthony hadn’t provided enough evidence to argue that MSU violated his due process rights…