UCLA Held Accountable for Failing Jewish Students Amid Campus Protests

In a decisive rebuke of institutional negligence, the University of California, Los Angeles has agreed to pay a $6.13 million settlement to three Jewish students and a professor who were effectively barred from accessing their classes due to unchecked pro-Palestinian protests in 2024. This landmark resolution follows a rare judicial intervention that confirmed UCLA’s failure to uphold its duty to protect the civil rights of its students. When Does Free Expression Cross Into Civil Rights Violations? The university initially argued that responsibility for blocking access rested with protesters, not the institution itself. But U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi rejected this...