We last visited the story of former Harvard professor Gino in late May on this blog. But the saga of an expert on honesty who was alleged by group known as DataColada to have manipulated her data - and who was ultimately terminated by Harvard after an investigation - continues:
From the Harvard Crimson: A federal judge rejected the data investigation blog Data Colada’s request to force former Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino to pay legal expenses for her since-dismissed defamation suit against them. Data Colada’s three bloggers moved in May to impose sanctions against Gino and her former legal counsel, from the firm Nesenoff & Miltenberg, describing her case as frivolous and punitive. “Her claims attacked the Data Colada Defendants merely for engaging in scientific inquiry, and they cast a chilling effect in derogation of important First Amendment principles,” Jeffrey J. Pyle, an attorney representing Data Colada, wrote in May, saying she filed suit without “any reasonable hope of prevailing on merits.”
But Myong J. Joun, the judge overseeing the case, rebuffed the motion on Thursday. Though he wrote that her defamation case was “weak indeed,” he declined to take the unusual step of requiring her to pay Data Colada’s attorneys’ fees. “While it is true that federal courts possess inherent power to sanction bad-faith conduct,” Joun wrote in his order, “it is also true that that power must be exercised with restraint and only where it is clear a party has acted in bad faith, vexatiously, or for oppressive reasons.” ...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/12/gino-data-colada-legal-fees/.
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