US Defeats Teachers Unions’ Suit to Restore Columbia Funding (1)

The Trump administration won dismissal of a lawsuit by two unions seeking to stop the withholding of $400 million in federal funds from Columbia University, saying the groups didn’t have the legal right to challenge the decision.

The American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers filed the lawsuit in response to US Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s announcement that the administration was pulling grants and contracts from the school following a series of pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

On Monday, US District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil dismissed the case, which sought an order that would restore ...