UC Berkeley alumni Jessica Felber and Brian Maissy dismissed their lawsuit accusing the campus and UC of failure to mitigate a hostile climate against Jewish students, the campus announced Wednesday. Read More…
President Barack Obama nominated UC Berkeley School of Law alumnus Jon Tigar to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday. Tigar — who graduated with a doctorate degree from the law school in 1989 and received his undergraduate bachelor’s degree in 1984 at Williams College in Read More…
The case of a UC Berkeley student who is suing a UCPD officer for allegedly violating her constitutional rights during a campus protest in 2009 began Monday in a federal court in San Francisco. Zhivka Valiavicharska — a graduate student in the rhetoric department — claims that UCPD officer Brendan Read More…
A lawsuit contending that UC Berkeley and the UC system failed to mitigate a climate averse to Jewish students was dismissed this week, the campus announced Friday. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the suit, which was originally filed March 4 by UC Berkeley alumnus Read More…
Six individuals, including former and current UC Berkeley students, have filed a federal class action lawsuit alleging that four campus officials violated their constitutional rights by punitively arresting and jailing 66 people participating in a December 2009 demonstration. According to the complaint — filed Oct. 7 in the U.S. District Read More…
