Carnegie Mellon Fails to Escape Jewish Student’s Bias Claims

Carnegie Mellon University has to defend against most of a former student’s claims that she was subjected to a pattern of antisemitism by professors, as well as the school officials who allegedly failed to act on her harassment complaints.

Yael Canaan can pursue her Title VI claims against the university because her allegations “plausibly show that CMU intentionally discriminated against her through its deliberate indifference because she is Jewish and of Israeli descent,” Judge W. Scott Hardy of the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania wrote in a Tuesday opinion. But the court dismissed Canaan’s intentional ...