Ward L. Churchill was fired in 2007 after a faculty committee said he had committed academic fraud.
It questioned whether Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts, committed academic misconduct in a book she wrote with Sullivan.
Last year, a prominent Dutch psychologist was found to have committed academic fraud in several dozen peer-reviewed papers, many of which had been widely reported in the news media.
The school certainly never mentioned them, and as for the N.C.A.A., all it cared about was whether McAdoo had committed academic fraud for getting citation help in a class that never met.
The NCAA is ordering Notre Dame to vacate wins from its 2012 and 2013 football seasons because a student athletic trainer committed academic misconduct by doing substantial coursework for two players and giving six others impermissible academic extra benefits.
On Monday, the Georgia president, Michael Adams, and Athletic Director Vince Dooley announced that the Bulldogs' season was over because two players committed academic fraud in a class taught by Coach Jim Harrick's son.
Chief Judge Larry J. Naves of Denver District Court ruled that the university's regents were effectively acting as judicial officers when they voted to dismiss Mr. Churchill in 2007 after a faculty committee concluded that he had committed academic fraud.
The psychologist, Diederik Stapel, of Tilburg University, committed academic fraud in "several dozen" published papers, many accepted in respected journals and reported in the news media, according to a report released on Monday by the three Dutch institutions where he has worked: the University of Groningen, the University of Amsterdam, and Tilburg.
The university revealed on Aug. 30 that it was investigating the possibility that almost half of the students in one undergraduate course had committed "academic dishonesty" on a take-home final exam last spring, either collaborating on answers or plagiarizing them outright.
► Physics teacher and Democrat Amanda Curtis decided to run for the U.S. Senate in Montana when Senator John Walsh resigned after reports he had committed academic plagiarism.
