The physicist Jan Hendrik Schön received his doctorate from the University of Konstanz in early 1998. In 2002 a commission of Bell Laboratories in the United States found that he had falsified measurement data. The University of Konstanz then withdrew his doctorate, although the fraud came after it. The state’s university law allows this when the holder’s later conduct shows that he is unworthy of the degree. Schön fought the decision for years. The Federal Administrative Court finally dismissed his case on 31 July 2013.