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Va. Supreme Court to Hear Appeal Involving 'Climategate' and Academic Freedom
Last week, the Supreme Court of Virginia by Kenneth Cuccinelli II, Attorney General of Virginia, regarding his investigation of former University of Virginia professor Michael Mann for possible fraud involving Mann's environmental research. A lower court had set aside his investigative demands without ruling on whether fraud had been committed. FIREhad expressed concern over the academic freedom implications of such a broad request for documents in such an investigation.
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