“University of Michigan students and employees are claiming in a new federal lawsuit that they were wrongfully terminated by the Ann Arbor-based institution in retaliation for participating in pro-Palestine protests on campus … The Sugar Law Center and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee filed the complaint Thursday, May 1, in U.S. District Court, alleging the university violated First Amendment free speech rights, as well as Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process.” … “Sadly, the University of Michigan is trying to resurrect an old but previously discarded tactic of firing and blacklisting workers whose viewpoints they don’t agree with,” John Philo, executive and legal director of the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, said in a statement. “By all accounts, each of our clients was a dedicated employee performing necessary work for the university.” See article from MLive here.

Lawsuit: U-M fired 8 pro-Palestinian staffers and forever banned them from working there … See Detroit Freep Press story here.

Former University of Michigan employees alleged in a new lawsuit that they were illegally fired and barred from seeking future work at the university because they participated in demonstrations to support ... See Law360 article here.