D.O.J. Sues U.C.L.A. After It Refused to Pay $1 Billion Fine

The Justice Department sued the University of California on Tuesday, accusing its Los Angeles campus of endemic antisemitism that compromised the civil rights of Jewish employees. The 81-page complaint, filed in Federal District Court in Los Angeles, said U.C.L.A.

had "turned a blind eye to — and at times facilitated — grossly antisemitic acts and systematically ignored cries for help from its own terrified Jewish and Israeli employees." The filing came nearly seven months after the department sought policy concessions and more than $1 billion from the university.

The university system referred requests for comment to U.C.L.A., which did not immediately respond. The suit was announced hours before the State of the Union and after months of relative calm in a dispute that has seen the Trump administration use litigation, funding cuts, investigations and settlement demands to try to reshape higher education.

United States, Los Angeles

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