Three Columbia University students filed a lawsuit against the school, citing dozens of instances where the school targeted the plaintiffs over their pro-Palestine activism, including suspension and housing eviction.
On Monday three Columbia University students filed a lawsuit against the school for their suspensions over Palestine activism.
“These students should be honored for their bravery, leadership, and moral clarity,” said James Carlson, an attorney for the plaintiffs, in a statement. “Instead, they’ve had their lives and careers unjustly sabotaged. Hopefully, lawsuits like this one will make universities think twice before persecuting students for their viewpoints.”
Drop Site News reported that Aidan Parisi, Brandon Murphy, and Catherine Curran-Groome are suing Columbia for violating “its own policies during the disciplinary process” and violating “New York’s landlord tenant laws when it evicted the students from university housing.” The 65-page complaint cites more than 30 instances where the school ignored established protocols to target the plaintiffs.
Parisi and Murphy received one-year suspensions and Curran-Groome received a two-year suspension. They were all scheduled to graduate this coming spring.
“They singled out a few of us to try to make an example out of us,” Curran-Groome told Drop Site. “None of us, absolutely none of us, deserved what we’ve experienced this year at Columbia in terms of the targeting and the discrimination and the violence and the repression.” (more...)
Students sue Columbia over suspensions for Palestine protest
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Columbia students just sued the university for attacks on pro-Palestine activism
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