The district court had thrown out the case with no opportunity to file an amended complaint; the Ninth Circuit agrees that plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the claim, but allows them to refile an amended complaint to "cure the standing deficiencies" (if they can).
The decision turns on the particulars of the scheme for federal enforcement of Title VI.
Repackaged as “antizionism,” an ancient hatred poses a fundamental danger to us all.
The lawsuit asks the court to (among many other things) "Rescind and award to the United States restitution of all grant payments made to UCLA during the time of UCLA’s noncompliance with Title VI."
"Plaintiff suspects he was poisoned by Jews."
"It is my hope that Pennsylvanians, and Americans, of all viewpoints and backgrounds will oppose and resist the scourge of Jew-hatred before it undermines what our ancestors have built here."
But the judge suspends his decision pending appeal, so that the appellate court has "time to consider and decide the merits of this case, absent unnecessary procedural deadlines."
Nick Fuentes and his followers compete to see who can be most offensive.
The decline of this major conservative institution has been a wakeup call for conservative intellectuals. But will they draw the right lessons from it?
Plus: Chile elects a right-winger, Jimmy Lai gets convicted, midair collision narrowly averted, and more...
Nationalism has a longstanding historical connection to anti-Semitism, and the link between the two in the US today should not be surprising.
One claim is that CMU's Chief Diversity Officer illegally recorded meeting with student and the accused professor—and then apparently "asserted her Fifth Amendment rights when ... asked her if she did so or if she had a pattern or practice of recording student meetings, without their consent, in the scope of her duties."
Sadly, this trend runs deeper than a few "Groypers" and influencers.
Shrugging off the radicalization of right-wing political culture is a mistake.
It is forthcoming in Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, (Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, eds., Oxford University Press).
Federal judge allows "pattern or practice" claim of discrimination against Jews by coffee shop to go forward.
The campus' settlement with the federal government is bound to create free speech headaches.
"including Plaintiff's divorce proceedings and criminal case."
One of the Orders calls on federal agencies to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition, which would label certain criticisms of Israel as anti-Semitic.
though the court found the plaintiffs had standing to bring the claim, and gave them one last chance to amend their complaint to plausibly allege enough to allow the case to go forward.
But he declines to conclude that another judge, against whom a complaint was lodged over participation in such a boycott, violated the rules.
can go forward in part, a federal trial judge concludes.
The rationale for deporting Mahmoud Khalil is chillingly vague and broad.
"As a result of Plaintiffs' scattered pleading, any serious allegations of actionable discrimination are buried as needles within a haystack of distraction."
Is it libelous to (1) accuse him of "antisemitism" and (2) accuse him (incorrectly) of having painted a swastika?
According to a student complaint, the Commission's head directed other students to reject "Zionist" applicants.
How identity politics and institutional cowardice have undermined the free speech on which our society relies.
The much-cited Harvard-Harris poll question has flawed wording,and is at odds with other, better surveys.
The Economist/YouGov survey indicates 1 in 5 young Americans believe the Holocaust is a "myth." The result is troubling, but less bad than it looks. It is also just one part of a broader problem of widespread ignorance about history and political issues.
It's rooted in a long history of defending horrific mass murder and other atrocities.
The GOP will get what it deserves if, as predicted, Trump burns down the party if he doesn’t get the 2024 nomination.
The "free speech absolutist" is maintaining some content restrictions while loosening others.
A new PBS series underscores the long, deadly shadow cast by xenophobia, antisemitism, and restrictive immigration laws.
A new PBS series by Ken Burns argues xenophobia, the Great Depression, incredulity toward the media, and State Department antisemitism combined to keep Jewish refugees out of America.
In response to the Buffalo massacre, Gov. Kathy Hochul invoked a hoary analogy to justify censorship.
French President Emmanuel Macron is authoritarian-light. Candidate Marine Le Pen is worse.
The same logic, of course, would apply to criticism of other countries and governments, such as China, Russia, the Palestinian government, and more.
Such laws, which allow redundant prosecutions based on defendants' bigoted beliefs, supposedly are authorized by the amendment that banned slavery.
According to a former federal prosecutor, the seemingly redundant case sends "the message that the Justice Department won't tolerate this type of racist hatred."
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