January 17, 2003
Court Requires Penn to Pay $2.9-Million to Veterinary Professor
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last month ordered the University of Pennsylvania to pay $2.9-million to a tenured veterinary professor who had sued the university for violating his employment contract and destroying his cancer-research program.
The 3-to-2 ruling reversed an appeals-court decision that had thrown out a $5-million trial-court verdict in favor of Jorge F. Ferrer, 71, a longtime professor of veterinary medicine at Penn. But the Supreme Court cut the award to $2.9-million,
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