The Trial

Probably less dramatic than the Orson Welles film, the much-delayed trial involving a lawsuit by Anderson School lecturer Gordon Klein against the Regents, UCLA, and the dean of Anderson, was due to start July 1. From the Bruin:

A UCLA lecturer suing UC administrators for over $22 million will see his case go to trial Tuesday. Gordon Klein, a continuing lecturer in accounting, filed a lawsuit against Antonio Bernardo, the dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and the UC Board of Regents in September 2021. Klein was suspended in June 2020 for his response to a student’s request for grading accommodations for Black students, and was reinstated in September 2020. The trial date has been pushed back several times. The trial will be a bench trial – meaning that a judge, rather than a jury, decides the outcome – at the Santa Monica Courthouse...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2025/06/30/trial-to-begin-in-lawsuit-filed-by-ucla-lecturer-against-administrators.

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*For past blog coverage:

https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/09/reinstated-year-later-now-lawsuit.html; https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/09/reinstated.html.