Cases

• Boston University - 1998

  US District Court judge dismissed suit to shut down 8 paper mills. Selling research over the Web is not fraud; students commit fraud.

• California Legal Code

  (Education Code 66400-66405) Prohibits selling of term papers, theses, etc. Sixteen other states have adopted similar laws (source: Shasta College plagiarism site)

• Rutgers University

  Prof. Donald L. McCabe studied 500 middle and high school students. Half felt it was okay to have parents do their homework. See U.S. News & World Report, 127.20 (1999):55.

• University of Virginia

  Physics Prof. Louis Bloomfield used software to detect plagiarism. Results released in May 2001: 122 students accused of possible plagiarism. UVa's Code of Ethics was not deterrent enough.