A lawsuit challenging UC Santa Cruz’s use of two-week bans from campus against protesters is scheduled for a predisposition hearing and possible decision next Tuesday, Nov. 19, at Santa Cruz County Superior Court.
The lawsuit was filed in September by two UCSC students and one professor who, alongside more than 100 other people, were arrested when law enforcement disbanded a Gaza solidarity encampment on May 31. Police charged the majority with failure to disperse and resisting arrest, and issued notices that they were banned from campus for two weeks.
Students Laaila Irshad, Hannah (Elio) Ellutzi and professor Christine Hong are asking the Santa Cruz court to prohibit UCSC from issuing such bans prior to holding conduct hearings and to require administrators to follow university and state and federal policy on due process…