Federal judge dismisses Trump admin’s lawsuit alleging Harvard violated Jewish, Israeli students' rights

A federal judge dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Harvard University on Thursday, ruling that the government had not shown an ongoing violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act involving Jewish and Israeli students.Richard Stearns, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, said the lawsuit, filed in March, relied primarily on incidents from the 2023-24 academic year. Only three of the incidents cited occurred afterwards, in March 2025, he wrote.“Without diminishing any concern arising from these occurrences, the court finds them, singly and collectively, to be too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference that any institutionalized noncompliance with Title VI persists at Harvard to this day,” he wrote.Stearns also said federal law requires the government to first notify an institution of its failure to comply with Title VI and determine that voluntary compliance cannot be obtained before taking…

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