The plaintiffs just withdrew the case, though their counsel reports that they plan to refile in the next two weeks with additional allegations. For now, I thought I'd post about the March opinion in the case by Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha, in Doe Jewish USC Faculty Member 2004 v. USC, which dismissed an earlier version of the Complaint:
Plaintiffs … bring claims relating to protests on Defendant's campus … regarding the Israel-Hamas war. Plaintiffs … allege Defemdant "invited, encouraged, aided, abetted, permitted, allowed, and subsequently appeased, enabled and negotiated with violent, sword and other weapon-wielding, Jew-hating Hamas-supporting campus terrorists antisemites … who infiltrated and overtook its Los Angeles campus … setting up tents and occupying [Defendant's] property under the [Defendant]'s watchful eyes."
Plaintiff Faculty Member brings this action in an "individual capacity as a Jewish USC Professor who suffered damages and harm as a result of [Defendant]'s conduct and as a representative on behalf of all other similarly situated Jewish Professors." Plaintiff Student sues "individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated."
The court rejected all of plaintiffs' claims:
