Posted on 01/30/2025 12:09:56 PM PST by aimhigh
Mob rule on college campuses has suffered a serious legal setback. The Jewish professor suing the California College of the Arts in San Francisco for threatening to fire her because she gently reproached pro-Hamas students won a significant legal battle earlier this month when a federal judge ruled that the case can proceed, rejecting a motion to dismiss from the College.
Hopefully, the ruling is going to prove a cautionary note to college administrators who coddle pro-Hamas students and resort to railroading any professors who dare challenge them. United States District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam, Jr., ruled that the professor, Karen Fiss, had presented sufficient evidence that the College discriminated against Fiss based on her religion and had created a hostile work environment because the school, as she contended, in the lawsuit has turned into a pro-Hamas swamp.
It cited an Instagram post from one particularly woke academic department that appeared to glorify the October 7 Hamas massacre by saying decolonization is not a dinner party.
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ABOUT TIME-—PUSHBACK
Good news. Could be the Trump effect.
Surely he shouldn’t be discriminating against the college but why the lawsuit?
There’s plenty of evidence and discovery is going to be a boon.
The sound of money blowing in the wind like autumn leaves.
yes, But, if this Haywood guy is presiding judge (don’t know how that works), I wouldn’t celebrate too soon.
-fJRoberts-
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