Marvin Zeman, left, review the lawsuit with IEA UniServ Director Jim Clark.
A university professor who aced an ethics test has won a legal battle with state officials who wanted him punished for completing the written exam too quickly.
A settlement agreement has been reached between the state and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) professor, Marvin Zeman.
Illinois law mandates all state employees undergo ethics training and then be tested on it. Though the state's testing rules don't specify how much time should be spent taking the test, noncompliance letters were sent to state workers who, in the opinion of the bureaucrats, had completed the test too quickly.
"We filed the lawsuit with the support of IEA because we resented the fact that our integrity, along with that of more than 15,000 other state employees, was questioned by bureaucrats in the inspector general's office," said Zeman, who also serves as president of the SIUC Faculty Association.
The settlement agreement specifies that Zeman read and understood the material and successfully passed the test when he took it in 2006.