First Circuit Rejects Harassment Claim Based on MIT Anti-Israel Protests: "[W]e Do Not Construe Title VI as Requiring a University to Quash Protected Speech"

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First Circuit Rejects Harassment Claim Based on MIT Anti-Israel Protests: "[W]e Do Not Construe Title VI as Requiring a University to Quash Protected Speech"

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A necessarily oversimplified excerpt from the >12K-word Stand with Us Center for Legal Justice v. MIT, decided by First Circuit Judge William Kayatta, joined by Judge Gustavo Gelpi and District Judge William Smith (D.R.I.):
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act mandates that "[n]o person in…

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