Kansas Professor Advances Claims Over ‘China Initiative’ Ouster

The University of Kansas must face discrimination claims by a Chinese professor fired after he was arrested and convicted on charges relating to a now-defunct Justice Department anti-spying program, a federal judge ruled.

Feng Tao’s 2022 guilty verdict on wire-fraud counts stemming from the DOJ’s 2018 “China Initiative” was later overturned by the trial judge and the Tenth Circuit reversed his conviction for making a false statement. Tao wasn’t required to plead his race bias allegations in detail to state a Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act claim, the US District Court for the District of Kansas said ...