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Federal judge denies CAIR request for restraining order in suit against Northwestern

Georgia Alexakis, a U.S. district court judge, stated that “the plaintiffs have failed to establish the likelihood of success on the merits of the claims that they advance.”

Close-up of a wooden gavel. Credit: Sora Shimazaki/Pexels.
Close-up of a wooden gavel. Credit: Sora Shimazaki/Pexels.

Georgia Alexakis, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, denied a restraining order, which the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations sought to bar Northwestern University from mandating that students take Jew-hatred bias training.

The federal judge stated that CAIR “failed to establish the likelihood of success on the merits of the claims that they advance,” the Daily Northwestern, a student paper, reported on Tuesday.

CAIR and others filed a lawsuit in district court on Oct. 15 on behalf of Graduate Workers for Palestine, a student group at the school, and two doctoral students against the university. The suit alleged that the mandatory training violates federal civil rights law.

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