From the LA Times: In the University of California’s strongest rebuke yet of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against it, the university is asking a federal judge to throw out a Justice Department lawsuit accusing UCLA of enabling antisemitism, describing the case in court filings as “political coercion.” ...UC’s lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder in Los Angeles to dismiss the case filed four months ago, alleging the government is “weaponizing” civil rights laws and has no legal basis for the suit...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-01/uc-asks-judge-dismiss-doj-ucla-antisemitism-lawsuit.
Request for dismissal at https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28713336/ucla.pdf. Alternative: https://ia600402.us.archive.org/9/items/2-final-hjaa-report.-the-soil-beneath-the-encampments/UCLA%20asks%20for%20dismissal%20of%20DOJ%20case%209-30-2026.pdf.
Statement by UC President Milliken supporting the request: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-president-millikens-statement-universitys-motion-dismiss-department-justices-title-vi.
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