| United States District Court For The District Of Nebraska, Gerald Biby, Case No. 4:03CV3206, Plaintiff, v. Board Of Regents Of The University Of Nebraska At Lincoln, Darrell W. Nelson, Donald Helmuth, And John Does 1-10 In Their Individual And Official Capacities, Defendants. - June 2, 2003 - Click Here Computer Search - June 3, 1999
On June 3, 1999, the Defendants sent University personnel, including a plain clothes University police officer, to the Plaintiff’s office to search his computer. Plaintiff declined to allow access to his computer. On June 4,1999, the Defendants sent a uniformed, armed University police officer to force Plaintiff to allow access to all information on his computer. Plaintiff reiterated his refusal to give consent to such a search. Researcher sues UNL, saying he was fired for whistle-blowing - June 10, 2003
A former University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher says his computer was forcibly searched and he was fired after blowing the whistle on UNL officials. Biby said he cooperated with requests from university officials for documents related to the dispute. But he also said he raised concerns on several occasions about his belief the university was acting illegally and may have been in breach of its contract with Corn Card.
Motion in Oposition to Dismiss Employees Corncard Incident Case December 10, 2003
The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Nebraska At Lincoln, Darrell W. Nelson, Donald Helmuth, And John Does 1-10 In Their Individual And Official Capacities have filed a Motion For Summary Judgment on Plaintiff’s Causes of Actions One through Five on the basis of sovereign immunity and the Eleventh Amendment of the United States Constitution Amendment against the University and the individuals in their official capacities, and for qualified immunity against the individuals in their individual capacities. Defendants have further moved this Court to dismiss Plaintiff’s state law claims because there is no federal question upon which supplemental jurisdiction may be predicated.
Corncard Incident Affidavit of Gerald Biby December 10 2003
Upon my hire in October 1993, the mandate from Dr. Hanna was for me to do commercialization and transfer of technology to business and industry. This mandate had been continuously and consistently reinforced by the actions of the University from the time I was employed through January 1999. My duties consisted of acting as an interface between companies and the IAPC in identifying applied research opportunities and the preliminary negotiating the aspects of accomplishing the marketing of new products, I carried out these duties until January 1999.
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