1. Whether federal statutory and regulatory scheme, for research misconduct, displaced state law from subject matter jurisdiction on defamation claims arising from complaint made under that regulation, and

2. Whether First Amendment, applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, protects the complainant of research misconduct when he outlines the factual and scientific basis of his conclusions constituting an opinion on a subject of public concern.

Whether federal statutory and regulatory scheme for research misconduct preempted state law defamation claims