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https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/how-uc-irvine-saved-ozone-layer
Former UC Irvine student government officer Jim Breslo told the Los Angeles Times, "The anteater is not threatening, but if he is attacked, he will fight to the death. As UCI students, we're all anteaters. People might think it's embarrassing at first. But by the time they leave, they're proud of it."
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UC IRVINE: CAS wrote to Orange County DA Anthony Rackauckas: [In February of 2010 at UC Irvine a well organized group of Muslim students attempted to prevent the Israeli ambassador from giving his scheduled talk on the campus. But in this case, not only did the campus administration take action against the students—the local DA also prosecuted them, and he obtained a conviction.
Actions like these are long overdue, and accordingly, the board of the CAS wrote to Orange County DA Anthony Rackauckas to congratulate him on a much needed prosecution. ]
{ Rackauckas has been criticized by Public Defender Scott Sanders for his office's purported mishandling of jailhouse informants which has created difficulties in convicting and sentencing defendants due to the violations of defendants' constitutional rights. This resulted in the "taking off the table" of the death penalty for Scott Dekraai, who had pleaded guilty to murdering eight people and wounding another in a Seal Beach massacre. }
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Orange County prosecutors didn't flinch Friday when a group of university student activists charged with disturbing an Israeli ambassador's speech last year at UC Irvine brought more than 60 supporters with them to court.
Instead, prosecutors filed a motion at the hearing to release grand jury transcripts from their investigation and handed out copies of court filings they said illustrated point by point how the students — "the Irvine 11" — conspired to disrupt Ambassador Michael Oren's speech at UC Irvine on Feb. 8, 2010, then tried to cover it up.
"They're caught red-handed," Deputy Dist. Atty. Dan Wagner said outside court. "They very intentionally tried to shut down" Oren's speech.
Prosecutors have charged eight former or current UC Irvine and three UC Riverside students with misdemeanor conspiracy to commit a crime and misdemeanor disruption of a meeting. Seven of the 11 were in court and pleaded not guilty. Attorneys pleaded not guilty on behalf of the other four.
"This isn't about the war on Gaza, it's about democracy here," said defense attorney Jacqueline Goodman. "It was a principled protest by top students.… They're fighting for all of us."
"We need more students like this," added defense attorney Dan Stormer.
The defense claims the students acted independently. But a motion from prosecutors released Friday suggests the disruption was organized by UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union, which is on probation because of the incident.
According to an email distributed to the school's Muslim Student Union board with minutes from a meeting days before the protest, the students considered Oren's appearance to be "sending [the] message that this is an Israeli campus again" and they would conduct a "Chicago-style" protest to "disrupt the whole event" and "shut down with individual disruption."
The 11 students each rose individually and shouted at Oren before being escorted out by police. Prosecutors said Oren was able to speak for only three minutes in his first half hour because of protesters.
An email from one of the defendants to protesters two days before Oren's speech reminds them to shout only scripted comments, nothing ad-libbed.
"Remember that this is a planned calculated response and not a venting session," defendant Mohamed Abdelgany, 23, wrote, according to court documents.
Emails in the days after the speech urge protesters to disavow any involvement on the part of the Muslim Student Union.
Defense attorneys declined to comment on the emails until they review the motion.
The parties are due back at Santa Ana's Central Justice Center on May 13 to argue before Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson whether portions of the grand jury investigation should be unsealed. Defense attorneys have until May 6 to file their opposition to the proposal.
If convicted on all charges, each defendant would face up to six months in jail.
joseph.serna@latimes.com
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UC Irvine recommends suspension of campus' Muslim student group
University officials recommend the suspension after members disrupted a speech by the Israeli ambassador earlier this year, heightening a debate about free speech that has roiled the campus.
June 15, 2010|By Raja Abdulrahim, Christopher Goffard and Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times
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Trump campaign’s legal strategy includes suing a tiny TV station in northern Wisconsin
Meg Cramer, Katherine Sullivan / WNYC, Pro PublicaJuly 23, 2020
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This year, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign…
This year, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign filed defamation lawsuits against three of the country’s most prominent news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN. Then it filed another suit against a somewhat lower-profile news organization: northern Wisconsin’s WJFW-TV, which serves the 134th-largest market in the country.
The Trump campaign sued the station over what it claims is a false and defamatory ad WJFW aired that showed Trump downplaying the threat of the coronavirus as a line tracking new COVID-19 infections ticks up and up on the screen.
Dozens of stations ran the ad. But the Trump campaign chose to sue just NBC-affiliate WJFW, which is owned by a relatively small company that only has two other local TV stations, both in Bangor, Maine. The campaign did not initially sue the political organization that produced the ad. That group later joined the case as a defendant.
The curious lawsuit is part of a larger, aggressive and exceedingly expensive legal operation by the Trump campaign that’s the focus of our latest “Trump, Inc.” podcast.
The campaign has spent over $16 million on litigation and other legal costs — more than any past presidential campaign and more than 10 times what presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has spent on legal services, according to disclosures.
Trump has long boasted about his penchant for filing lawsuits. The president and his businesses have reportedly filed over 2,000 lawsuits. After losing a 2006 defamation lawsuit against the journalist Tim O’Brien, Trump told the Post that he knew he couldn’t win, but he sued anyway. “I spent a couple of bucks on legal fees, and they spent a whole lot more,” Trump said. “I did it to make his life miserable, which I’m happy about.”
As with other areas, Trump has taken his approach to running his personal life and business to the presidency.
Multiple media law experts told us that the suit against tiny WJFW has little chance of succeeding. Susan Seager, a media defense lawyer and adjunct professor at The University of California, Irvine, School of Law, said, “The courts are very deferential and very protective of opinions about public figures and political issues.”
So if Trump isn’t likely to win, what might he be trying to do? Matthew Sanderson, who served as counsel for Sens. John McCain and Mitt Romney, said he thinks the Trump campaign is “engaging in scare tactics.”
“The reason in my opinion that the Trump campaign is filing these types of lawsuits is not necessarily to punish the Wisconsin station — they’re not going to be successful,” Sanderson said. “The reason they’re doing this is to send a message to the rest of the stations to be careful” about running anti-Trump ads.
Unlike many other states, Wisconsin doesn’t have a law that makes complainants pay for defendants’ legal costs if a defamation suit ends up being dismissed as frivolous.
Seager estimates that fighting a defamation lawsuit brought by a high-profile group like the Trump campaign could cost anywhere from $100,000 to $250,000, just to go through the process of getting it dismissed.
We asked the Trump campaign and its lawyers about the suit and why they chose WJFW. They did not respond.
The TV station commented, through a lawyer, that “WJFW has no choice but to fight the Trump campaign’s attempt to bully a small-market broadcaster into surrendering its First Amendment rights. The public counts on local broadcasters, especially in an election year, to remain free to air criticisms of public officials.”
Of course, one critical difference between lawsuits Trump used to file in his business dealings and the ones his campaign is filing is that Trump no longer has to use his own money. His donors are picking up the tab.
Trump’s disclosures show his campaign has paid about $200,000 to the firm handling the Wisconsin case.
The campaign has also paid $3.3 million to the firm ofattorney Charles Harder, who specializes in high-profile reputation defense lawsuits.Harder is representing the Trump campaign in the three other defamation suits against media organizations. Harder is perhaps best known as the lawyer who successfully sued Gawker into bankruptcy on Hulk Hogan’s behalf while being surreptitiously funded by venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
Another set of expenses in the disclosures is also interesting. It shows the Trump campaign spent $95,161 on “legal & IT consulting” paid to … “The Trump Corporation.” Neither the campaign nor Trump’s company responded to questions about those charges.
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UC Irvine officials have recommended the suspension of the university's Muslim student group whose members disrupted a speech by the Israeli ambassador earlier this year, heightening a debate about free speech that has roiled the campus.
The decision appears to be the first in recent memory at UC recommending the ban of a student group for something other than hazing or alcohol abuse.
In making the suspension recommendation, Lisa Cornish, UC Irvine's director of student housing, found that the Muslim Student Union had "planned, orchestrated and coordinated in advance" an effort to disrupt a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on Feb. 8 about U.S.-Israeli relations. The recommendation was made in late May but not made public at that time.
Oren was shouted down repeatedly by Muslim students who stood up and delivered statements such as "Michael Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech." Supporters cheered as the students were escorted away by police, and each time Oren attempted to resume his speech, another student jumped up with another outburst.
Eleven UC Irvine and UC Riverside students were arrested and cited for disturbing a public event, but none have been criminally charged[2 misdemoner cts?]. The Muslim Student Union claimed the disruptions were caused by individuals and were not organized by their group.
In a report detailing the findings of its investigation, Cornish cited e-mails between members of the student union and detailed minutes from a Feb. 3 meeting.
According to the report, the group's goal was to "send the speaker a message" and to develop a "game plan" to disrupt Oren's speech.
The plan included identifying students willing to participate, drafting scripted statements and urging supporters to attend and cheer each disruption. The plan also instructed students to deny that the Muslim Student Union organized the protest, according to the report.
The group violated university policies prohibiting "fabricating information (or) furnishing false information," "obstruction or disruption of teaching, research, administration … or other University activities," "disorderly or lewd conduct" and "participation in a disturbance of the peace or unlawful assembly," according to the report.
Along with a one-year suspension, which would begin in September, the report requires members of the student union to complete 50 hours of community service. If the group is suspended, its current officers could not act as "authorized signers" for any other student organization.
UC President Mark G. Yudof said Monday he had no role in the decision to recommend the suspension, although he was told of the decision a few days ago, according to Lynn Tierney, the UC system's associate vice president for communications.
"It was a process handled completely locally," Tierney said.
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Irvine's law school, said the ban was appropriate punishment and stressed it stemmed not from the students' speech but for misrepresenting their role in the incident. "Given the seriousness of the offense, I think it's completely appropriate to suspend them for a year," he said.
Reem Salahi, the students' attorney, described the suspension recommendation as "excessive" and "draconian." She said it is not final and that her clients have appealed the decision.
UC Irvine has long been a flashpoint of tensions between Muslim and Jewish groups. In 2005, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights investigated whether the university discriminated against Jews. That probe found that although Muslim students had engaged in offensive behavior, their actions stemmed from opposition to the policies of Israel rather than to Jewish students themselves.
Monday, Jewish groups praised the recommended ban of the student union and called it a victory against hate speech. Muslim activists said the suspension amounts to "collective punishment" that targets a whole group for the actions of a few.
Salahi said she worried the recommendation could jeopardize Muslim life on campus. Victor Sanchez, president of the systemwide UC Student Assn., said he was outraged. "It's almost impossible not to interpret this as a means of the university to silence dissent," he said.
Isaac Yerushalmi, former president of Anteaters for Israel, which sponsored Oren's appearance in February, said the Muslim Student Union has been "involved in repeated attempts to silence Jewish voices on campus."
Israeli Consul General Jacob Dayan, who was with the Israeli ambassador during his speech, accused the Muslim Student Union of "spreading hate" and stifling "free discussion and open debate."
Mark Petracca, a UC Irvine professor who helped sponsor Oren's address and who tried to quell the disruptions by urging Muslim students to respect their guest, said after the speech that he received e-mails from around the world, including one from a friend alerting him that the controversy had made the news in Tel Aviv.
After the Oren incident, the New York-based Zionist Organization of America urged college-bound students, as well as financial donors, to avoid UCI as a campus that permitted bigotry.
Jewish groups cite several incidents of perceived anti-Semitism on campus, including the defacing of an Israeli flag in a dorm room, the display of a poster equating the Star of David with a swastika, the vandalizing of a Holocaust memorial, and a 2006 program sponsored by the Muslim Student Union titled "Holocaust in the Holy Land" and "Israel: The Fourth Reich."
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Anna Gorman and Tony Barboza contributed to this report.
Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas on Wednesday released emails and court documents used in the trial to convict 10 Muslim students on criminal charges of disrupting a speech.
The so-called Irvine 11 were each convicted of two misdemeanors Friday for disrupting aUC Irvine event featuring Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren in February 2010.
The students face fines, probation and 56 hours of community service. Defense attorneys say they will appeal. Charges against an 11th defendant were dropped pending completion of community service.
The evidence includes two videos from the event, multiple email chains from the students who planned the disruption and minutes from meetings of the Muslim Student Union, an organization that has denied planning the protest but whose members were involved.
One email from a student summarizing the event said, "It is our duty to show the people who are going to listen that this man is a war criminal, and we will not allow a platform for him to spread lies on our campus, whether it be at UCI or any other campus around the nation."
In May, Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson issued a gag order preventing anyone involved from talking about the case publicly.
Dist. Atty. spokeswoman Susan Kang Schroeder said the office was unable to respond to criticism contending racism and religious bias because of the gag order.
"We felt it was important for the public to examine it for themselves," she said.
She said she felt that the defense supporters acted in an intimidating manner during the trial and that the students on trial were defiant after the verdict.
"They've shown absolutely no remorse for the fact that they committed a crime," she said.
Jacqueline Goodman, one of the defense attorneys in the case, said it's rare to devote so much energy to a misdemeanor, especially after a conviction. She added that the D.A.'s office is publicizing only a small portion of the evidence, which included thousands of pages of documents.
"They are only releasing the ones that look bad," she said.
nicole.santacruz@latimes.com
A UC Irvine student Palestinian-support group begins the school year this month with a two-year probation for disrupting an event on campus featuring young veteran Israeli soldiers.
The campus chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine, SJP, faces disciplinary probation for two academic years. During that time, members must meet with the dean of students 12 times to discuss free speech issues and must also consult with a representative of the dean’s office before hosting or co-hosting any campus event.
This is not the first time SJP has been accused of disrupting an Israeli-related event.The group is appealing the administration’s decision and has filed its own complaint against UCI’s Students Supporting Israel.
Meanwhile, any further violations of the campus code of student conduct could lead UCI to suspend or revoke the student Palestinian organization’s status, university officials said.
“UCI welcomes all opinions and encourages a free exchange of ideas – in fact, we defend free speech as one of our bedrock principles as a public university,” read a statement issued last week.
“Yet, we must protect everyone’s right to express themselves without disruption. This concept is clearly articulated in our policies and campus messaging. We will hold firm in enforcing it.”
Kevin Brum, president of UCI’s Students Supporting Israel, said Monday: “This is not the first time SJP has tried to shut us down or trample our rights. We’re happy the university is taking it more seriously than they have in the past.”
Liz Jackson, staff attorney with Palestine Legal, an organization dedicated to supporting the Palestinian rights movement, said UCI’s decision is “not about the facts or the law. It’s a politically motivated choice to curtail the speech activities of students who stand up for Palestinian rights.”
“It’s clearly UCI that needs the lesson in free speech, not the students,” Jackson said in a statement. Individual students were not sanctioned, she said in an e-mail.
On May 10, the UCI Students Supporting Israel group hosted five former Israeli soldiers to campus. About a dozen people attended the program when about an hour into the event, as a Q&A was underway, a group of more than 30 members and supporters of the SJP group walked in.
At first, they were invited to participate and ask questions, as seen in videos posted online. The Israeli soldiers answered several of the questions about the conflict plaguing the Middle East but emotions soon began to flare. Shouted questions and clapping later dissolved into chants against Israel.
“You’re killing our people,” one woman screamed.
The forum with the soldiers took place the same week the campus Muslim Student Union and other organizations put on the annual “Anti-Zionism Week,” which includes marches with chants like “Long Live the Intifada.”
During the week, organizers erect what they call an “apartheid wall,” symbolic of the one built in Israel after terrorist attacks; it is viewed by Israelis as a security measure and by Palestinians as segregationist. “Anti-Zionism Week” organizers say they see the week as an opportunity to share their views on the conflict in the Middle East.
This year, the young Israeli veterans, part of a group called Reservists on Duty, attended every day to pass out their own literature and share their views on the conflict with passersby.
Palestine Legal has filed a complaint against Students Supporting Israel, saying the former soldiers invited to campus harassed the SJP group and their supporters.
Brum, of the Students Supporting Israel group, said the soldiers did not harass anyone. Instead, they were on hand to answer questions, challenge information written on the so-called “apartheid wall” and counter what he called lies propagated by the student Palestinian group.
“They have this whole week where they put up a wall and have a monopoly on the conversation,” Brum said.
Last year’s “Anti-Zionism Week” included a counter-event featuring a movie about Israeli soldiers. That movie event was disrupted by protesters and it created a firestorm of controversy, with dozens of organizations supporting each side and demanding the university act. Administrators eventually gave the SJP a warning letter, saying the group violated conduct policies.
There have been other conflicts. Most notably, in 2010, 11 Muslim students from UCI and UC Riverside were arrested and charged for conspiring to disrupt a speech by then-Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. The following year, a jury found 10 of the students guilty and they were sentencedto three years of probation, cut to one year if they served community service.
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