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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-13/trump-drops-appeal-of-court-order-blocking-uc-ucla-settlement
UCLA maintained they were not violating any laws. UC System had considered settling because they could not pay the fine Trump's idiot DOJ wanted to push. But faculty groups and unions sued to block and won an injunction. Now, knowing they will not win, the DOJ is out of there.
Now if only other schools had done the same thing.
RetrogradeLlama
So much winning.
NKato
Why is "settling" always among the first things on an administrator's mind when a lawsuit comes up? It's such a strange knee-jerk reflex.
Einbrecher
Because once they have their headline and a perp walk, nothing else matters to them. If they win the case, they'll put it on blast. If they lose the case, they'll just focus on the next perp walk.
makesense
Because the whole point of the amount of the fine was to be so excessive that the other side is forced to either spend so much money fighting it to maybe win, or to accept what they want you to do. So of course the ones the Federal Government goes after will possibly settle. But Trump's admin is doing it as retribution for disobedience rather than for any actual law breaking.
xxbiohazrdxx
This is what happens when you replace the administrative apparatus of universities with business idiots instead of academics. Option A costs less dollars than Option B, so they'll do Option A. Everything else be damned.
bripi
Harvard did not bend the knee either.
makesense
Correct. Harvard is a private school though. UCLA is not. The suit really targeted the whole UC system, though for certain UCLA and Berkeley were going to be the main targets.
SpammersAreScum
The battle was won, but the war is not over. "The government’s decision to drop the appeal — less than a month after filing it — does not mean it is stopping its pursuit of change at the University of California, the largest public university system to face a torrent of investigations since the White House launched a campaign against campuses it sees as too reliant on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, foreign students and leftist ideas."
makesense
Yeah... but this shows the path to blocking them.