By Bob Walsh
Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA
The Brandies Center has filed a
suit on behalf of Jewish students at UCLA against the National Students
for Justice in Palestine and the People's City Council. Two weeks ago
the federal court ruled to allow it to proceed.
Judge
Mark Scarsi of the United States District Court for the Central
Disctrict of California ruled that the plaintiff's allegations are
plausible and that these groups seem to have acted at least in part to
deprive the plaintiff's of their rights under the 13th Amendment.
The
groups are, thus far, claiming First Amendment protection. The First
Amendment does not, as far as I can tell, allow people to conspire to
deprive other people of their civil rights by use of force, violence and
intimidation. They also denied they were directly involved in the
"encampments" at UCLA.
This legal action is NOT targeting the university itself. The lawsuit has been in the pipeline about ten months.
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