Overview

• Nineteen-year-old Orion Newby, a sophomore in Adelphi’s Bridge Program, filed suit seeking to vacate the misconduct ruling, clear his record, and recover tuition and fees.
• After a professor said the essay was “too advanced” and likely AI-assisted, Adelphi gave him a zero, assigned an anti-plagiarism course, and restricted future enrollment until completion.
• In court papers the university stands by its academic-integrity process, while publicly declining comment because the case is pending.
• Newby denies using AI, says he spent 15–20 hours on the paper with university tutors, and his family contends the flagged text was his citation list.
• A hearing is set for early November, as experts caution against relying solely on AI detectors and Turnitin notes it serves 16,000 institutions and has reviewed 200 million papers.