Judge dismisses nuisance suit against Harvard
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They were right to resist the pressure to settle this:
A district court judge dismissed the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard on Thursday, concluding that the incidents pointed to by the government were “too isolated and episodic” to show that the University remained in violation of federal civil rights law.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns wrote that the government’s amended complaint focused almost entirely on incidents from the 2023-2024 school year and cited just three incidents from March 2025.
The government sued Harvard in March alleging that the University’s response to alleged antisemitism following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack was so inadequate that it constituted “deliberate indifference.” The lawsuit sought extraordinary relief, asking the court to cut off future funding to Harvard and retroactively claw back nearly $1 billion in federal grants issued.
“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,” Stearns wrote.
The brief, four-page decision dealt a major blow to one of the Trump administration’s most aggressive legal attempts to hold Harvard accountable for its response to campus antisemitism — but stopped short of deciding whether the University had violated civil rights law during the tumultuous months immediately following Oct. 7.
This obviously makes the Columbias of the world who did agree to be shaken down look even worse.
In related news, this is a depressing and detailed account of how Paul, Weiss went from being a locus of resistance in Trump 1.0 to full collaborationist in Trump 2.0.