The judge did not rule on the claims' merits, only that a lawsuit could proceed.
An unidentified person walks through Harvard yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 7, 2023.following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel, a federal judge in Boston ruled.
Judge Richard Stearns said Jewish students plausibly claimed Harvard had been indifferent to their fears of walking through the campus and missing classes and extracurricular activities when they were allegedly harassed by pro-Palestinian protesters.MORE: Harvard officials denounce 'antisemitic' photo shared by student groups
"The protests were, at times, confrontational and physically violent, and plaintiffs legitimately fear their repetition," Stearns wrote. "laintiffs have plausibly pled that they were subject to severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive harassment." Stearns said he was "dubious" of Harvard's claim that it allowed the protests to continue in order to protect the free speech rights of demonstrators. Instead, Harvard's reaction was "at best, indecisive, vacillating, and at times internally contradictory," the judge concluded.
An unidentified person walks through Harvard yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 7, 2023."To conclude that the has not plausibly alleged deliberate indifference would reward Harvard for virtuous public declarations that for the most part, according to the allegations of the , proved hollow when it came to taking disciplinary measures against offending students and faculty," Stearns wrote in the opinion.
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