The University of California on Thursday made a last-minute plea to the state Supreme Court, asking justices to block the release of a $1.2-billion UCLA settlement proposal from the Department of Justice as UC battles faculty members who are calling for more transparency about negotiations with the Trump administration.
In the California Supreme Court filing, UC asked for an “immediate temporary stay” of a lower court decision ordering the university to give faculty, by Friday, a 28-page document of federal demands for vast policy changes at UCLA that are in line with President Trump’s vision for higher education.
If the information is released, UC said in the filing, it will “suffer irreparable harm” to its dealings with the Trump administration as well as to other potential settlement negotiations in the future with other parties...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-23/judge-orders-uc-to-go-public-with-trump-ucla-settlement-proposal.
Let's see if we understand this: UC is saying it will suffer "irreparable harm" from release of a document that someone has already shared with the LA Times.