FLAVIA PICHIORRI, PH.D., v. ARTHUR BURGHES; BRANDON BIESIDADECKI; JONATHAN DAVIS; JILL A. RAFAEL-FORTNEY; YUTONG ZHAO; THOMAS HUND; LOREN WOLD; COLLEEN RUPP; PETER MOHLER; OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES - Articles

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FLAVIA PICHIORRI, PH.D., v. ARTHUR BURGHES; BRANDON BIESIDADECKI; JONATHAN DAVIS; JILL A. RAFAEL-FORTNEY; YUTONG ZHAO; THOMAS HUND; LOREN WOLD; COLLEEN RUPP; PETER MOHLER; OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Dec 22, 2025

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ON BRIEF: Renny J. Tyson, RENNY J. TYSON CO., LPA, Columbus, Ohio, William W. Patmon, III, THE PATMON LAW FIRM, LLC, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: ON BRIEF: Michael H. Carpenter, Timothy R. Bricker, Gregory R. Dick, CARPENTER LIPPS LLP, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellees.

Judge(s): WHITE, STRANCH, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges

Court Appealed: United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio at Columbus

MURPHY, Circuit Judge. Dr. Flavia Pichiorri published many articles while working as a research scientist at The Ohio State University. Years after Pichiorri left Ohio State, though, a university committee found that she had committed research misconduct in some of these articles. The committee later informed the relevant medical journals and her current employer of the misconduct. Pichiorri disagreed with the committee’s findings and believed that its disclosures to these third parties violated the Constitution. But the district court correctly found that sovereign immunity shielded some of the university defendants from this suit and that Pichiorri’s other due-process claims failed on the merits. We thus affirm the dismissal of Pichiorri’s complaint.

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