Reinstated - A Year Later & Now a Lawsuit

A year ago, we posted what appeared to be a resolution of a case involving the suspension and then reinstatement of a long-time continuing lecturer.* The case involved issues of academic freedom, grading in the context of the early stages of the coronavirus shift to online education, charges of racism, and considerable internet attention.

Although the individual was reinstated, a lawsuit has now been filed on his behalf which is already receiving internet attention on platforms such as Twitter. Examples:

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/09/29/ucla-lecturer-gordon-klein-suing-ucla-over-controversy-related-to-e-mail-rejecting-student-request-for-exam-leniency-for-black-students/ [UCLA Law Prof. Eugene Volokh's blog]

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1443646528002920459

https://bariweiss.substack.com/f/c4a8f715-54fd-4496-a661-909808caf480.pdf [download]

Since the lawsuit was just filed (Sept. 27), no response to it from UC/UCLA has yet appeared. An account in the Daily Bruin has just appeared:

https://dailybruin.com/2021/09/30/ucla-accounting-lecturer-files-lawsuit-against-dean-and-uc-board-of-regents.

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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/09/reinstated.html.