Encampment Case Goes Forward - Decision

A lawsuit that arose out of the UCLA encampments, MATTHEW WEINBERG et al., Plaintiffs, v. NATIONAL STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE et al., Defendants, can go forward after a Jan. 20th court decision.*

You can find an analysis and summary of the case in a piece by UCLA Prof. Eugene Volokh in his Volokh Conspiracy website:

Volokh notes that "the factual claims at this point are just allegations, and the court concludes only that, if the allegations are found to be true, plaintiffs could prevail."

From the decision:

...The sheer volume of alleged incidents of exclusion and violence against Jews sets this case apart from the two isolated incidents of violence alleged in [a previous case]. The Court is satisfied that Plaintiffs allegations, accepted as true and construed in their favor, raise an inference that encampment organizers, including NSJP and PCC [People's City Council], acted with an intent to deprive Plaintiffs of their Thirteenth Amendment rights...

Full story at https://reason.com/volokh/2026/01/26/suit-by-jewish-ucla-students-professor-and-chabad-rabbi-against-pro-palestinian-encampment-organizers-can-go-forward/.

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*The case decision can be found at: https://ia600402.us.archive.org/9/items/2-final-hjaa-report.-the-soil-beneath-the-encampments/UCLA%20case%20can%20go%20forward%20-%20MATTHEW%20WEINBERG%20et%20al.%2C%20Plaintiffs%2C%20v.%20NATIONAL%20STUDENTS%20FOR%20JUSTICE%20IN%20PALESTINE%20et%20al.%2C%20Defendants%201-20-2026.pdf.