July 29, 2025
DOJ finds UCLA violated civil rights of Jewish students, proposes $1B settlement
UCLA findings threaten campus free speech nationwide
July 29, 2025
UCLA findings threaten campus free speech nationwide
DOJ found UCLA violated Title VI and the Fourteenth Amendment on Jul. 29, 2025.
The finding cited "deliberate indifference" to harassment of Jewish and Israeli students from Oct. 7, 2023 onward.
The Trump administration froze up to $584 million in federal research funding to UCLA.
The administration proposed a $1 billion settlement, one of the largest ever from a university.
UCLA separately paid $6.13 million settling a lawsuit from three Jewish students and one professor.
A federal judge ordered restoration of certain NSF grants, finding the suspension arbitrary and capricious.
The settlement would include $172 million for a claims fund for employment discrimination victims.
Did the U.S. Department of Justice"s Civil Rights Division find in Press Release No. 25-796 (July 29, 2025) that UCLA violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by acting with deliberate indifference to antisemitic harassment of Jewish and Israeli students during pro-Palestinian encampments?
Did Jewish students and community members participate in the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment in Dickson Plaza from April 25 to May 2, 2024?
Which Trump cabinet official, in the DOJ press release "Justice Department Finds the University of California-Los Angeles in Violation of Federal Civil Rights Law" (Office of Public Affairs, July 29, 2025), described UCLA's response to Jewish students as "a disgusting breach of civil rights"?
On July 23, 2025, Columbia University agreed to pay a $200 million settlement to the federal government in order to restore approximately $400 million in research grants that had been withheld and avoid further cuts to its federal funding. (True/False?)
On July 29, 2025, how much did UCLA agree to pay in its civil rights settlement with three Jewish students and a Jewish professor over campus protests blocking access to classes?
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