From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard argued in a Thursday filing that the Justice Department’s latest lawsuit largely repackages the Trump administration’s earlier, unsuccessful effort to strip the University of federal funding over allegations it mishandled campus antisemitism. In a seven-page filing, Harvard’s lawyers urged the court to reject the government’s effort to link the suit to two prior antisemitism cases — and instead treat it as a continuation of the University’s 2025 case against the Trump administration in which a federal judge ruled that the administration had acted unlawfully in cutting Harvard’s funding.
...The filing centers on a technical dispute over case assignment. The Justice Department has argued that its March 20 complaint is “related” to two private lawsuits filed in 2024, including one brought by Harvard Divinity School graduate Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum, which were heard by U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns. But Harvard countered that the government omitted what it described as the most relevant precedent: its earlier lawsuit against the Trump administration, which was decided in September by U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/3/28/harvard-filing-doj-lawsuit/.
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