Renault said the complaint followed "the discovery of serious misconduct detrimental to the company and in particular to its strategic, technological and intellectual assets".
It is generally accepted that discovery of research misconduct has serious consequences for those who perpetrate it.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston said today that two pastors had been suspended from all assignments after the discovery of past accusations of sexual misconduct involving minors.
But the five-week trial of Mr. Stevens offered a different version of him, and only a discrete part of that was directly affected by the discovery of repeated instances of prosecutorial misconduct.
What is more, Mr. Kepple said, a new discovery law would not have prevented the kind of misconduct alleged in the Morton case.
Dishonest retractions are triggered by the discovery of data fabrication or falsification, or other types of misconduct.
The retraction of scientific papers due to misconduct or the discovery of inadvertent error is nothing new.
The shortfall became apparent after the discovery of additional costs related to past misconduct and poor documentation.
Seven death row inmates were exonerated in Texas from 1983 to 1997 after evidence of witnesses who had lied, mistaken eyewitnesses and prosecutorial misconduct led to the discovery of their innocence.
An internal investigation cleared them of misconduct.
There was no record of misconduct.
