Lionel Hutz Case Study

June 3, 2015, Defendant attends his fifteen-year college reunion, in which all in attendance received a “Union Wells Class of 2000 Memory Book.” The Memory Book contained an autobiographical profile of every graduate from the class. Daniel Linderman had also attended as a guest. Mr. Linderman is an investigator for the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office and has specialized training in illegal gambling, bookmaking and money-laundering crimes. (Linderman Dep. 125:9).

In Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. Cannon, Peter Cannon, an attorney, representing a client in a bankruptcy proceeding, was charged by Iowa’s Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board for plagiarizing a large portion of his submitted brief from a published article. When questioned by the judge regarding unusually “high quality” of his brief, Cannon responded that he was solely responsible for the briefs and that the briefs “relied heavily” upon an article entitled Why Professionals Must Be Interested in Disinterestedness Under the Bankruptcy Code.” The court affirmed the Board’s decision that Cannon’s sanction of a public reprimand was appropriate. The court reasoned that, inter alia, Cannon had charged his client unreasonable

Instances of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Cheating on exams or plagiarism (presenting the work of another as your own, or the use of another person’s ideas without giving proper credit) will result in a failing grade and sanctions by the University. For this class, all assignments are to be completed by the individual student unless otherwise specified. If you would like to include in your

The hearing panel met three or four time during the period of April 19, 2010 and May 3, 2010. Brown did not appear before the panel during this time. On May 3, the hearing panel issued their dismissal of the academic misconduct claim again Brown because it did not violate a specific university rule. However, the panel noted that Brown’s application and letter of certification made clear that he could potentially be expelled for any withholding or false information. By signing the application, Brown acknowledged the law school’s right to dismiss him for false information on his application. Thus, the decision was left to Dean Gail Agrawal, who consulted with the University’s Office of General Counsel. She sent Brown a letter on May 26, 2010, notifying him of the intent to dismiss him effective June 8, 2010 for “falsification, misrepresentation, and failure to supply complete, accurate, and

I am writing to appeal the charge of academic rule violation of plagiarism. I was very surprised, and could not understand when I received an email form Mrs. Escudero on December 17, 2015 with was informing me that turn-it in had picked up two sources that were used and not listed on our references. I would like to urge you to please consider my statement.

The second story the author discusses is starkly different from that of the Anorexia paper, and makes an example of the type of trouble plagiarism can cause in an institution and those involved in it. In this instance, a male student submits a paper discussing the assigned topic in such a way that triggers the suspicions of the professor. Murphy eventually discovers the true origin of the paper, only to find the student had gone so far as to cut out the evidence from the book. Many denials and meetings later he was “Within the week . . . suspended from the University.” (900). An academic career over, and a weakening of a professors already tenuous ability to trust in his students, were all this case resulted in. Academic dishonesty, plagiarism, wastes the time of everyone involved. It wastes the time of the student because they aren’t learning anything. It wastes the time of the professor who has to search for the original sources of the plagiarized works. And it wastes the time of the committee formed to decide the fate of the student. The author mentions several times his distaste for having to search: “Though I should not have had time to play detective, I made room among all the duties of my life to pursue this student.” (900). Murphy was disappointed in his own inability to drop the case, needing to follow it to it’s conclusion despite his busy

For example, in Greenberg, conduct consisting of sitting for a bar exam despite not having obtained a law degree and subsequently lying to law

In “The Bedford Researcher,” Mike Palmquist (2015), identifies the consequences regarding work that has been plagiarized, and plagiarism is taken very seriously, because it guards intellectual property, and recognizes academic work has owners, this “protects an author’s time and energy that is invested into creating a document” (p. 127). Plagiarism can be an accidental or deliberate use of someone’s else’s ideas, thoughts, writings, and evidence without giving credit to the source(Palmquist, 2015, p. 127).

Professional ethics is one of the most crucial elements of practicing law successfully. Many take this matter lightly, causing them unfortunate career banning outcomes for their behavior or lack thereof. Throughout this paper I will discuss many different areas of unauthorized practice of law, for lawyers and non-lawyer professionals, as well as a historical overview of cases throughout history summarizing these unethical behaviors, and the outcome by our judicial system.

In my role as a student-research assistant to Professor Miranda Garcia, who also serves as the chair of the Committee on Professional Responsibility here at the Western College of Law, I have been tasked with formulating sanction recommendations for all three of the committee’s ongoing cases. Although the Committee requests that the sanctions chosen from the list of leviable sanctions in the Western College of Law’s Code of Professional Responsibility be consistent with both the severity of the crime and past sanctions, they by no means have to be identical. Depending on the lens through which they are viewed, the severity of the offenses committed by the respective guilty parties can vary widely. The bare essential details of the three cases are as such: Ben Reilly O’Shea, the offender in the first case misused his position as the treasurer of a student organization by using $2,000 of the organization’s funds to bankroll a Cancun vacation for himself and friends; the offender in the second case, Peter Parker Jones, submitted a paper to his constitutional law seminar course that was heavily plagiarized; and the offenders in the third case, Carlie Cooper Smith and Vin Gonzalez Esteban, collaborated on an assignment in their Legal Research and Writing course despite having been explicitly forbidden from doing such by the professor.

policy will be followed, and may result in dismissal of the student from Indiana Wesleyan

2c. The Iowa Supreme Court referred to another case involving attorney plagiarism (Iowa Supreme Court Board of Professional Ethics & Conduct v. Lane). In that case, the punishment for attorney Lane (suspension of his license to practice) was more severe than the punishment imposed on attorney Cannon. What distinction did the court make between these two cases? Do you agree with the court’s reasoning?

Gerdy, K. 2004. Law student plagiarism: why it happens, where it’s found, and how to find it.

The paper applies a content analysis to review student files which record the formal process by which students in a large US West Coast university were 'charged' with plagiarism and defended themselves. The article recognises the fact that students may disguise their true reasoning whilst providing the reasoning, but concludes that 'they are still exposing the logic that they use to defend plagiarism – and

According to our readings, "the type of plagiarism deliberate or unintentional has an impact upon the perception of the offence for both faculty and students" (Academic Integrity 2011). This is an important distinction to some people, although the act of plagiarism remains unacceptable no matter why it is done.