Mahmoud Khalil and anonymous student plaintiffs sue Columbia University and the U.S. House Committee ...

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Mahmoud Khalil and anonymous student plaintiffs sue Columbia University and the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, arguing that congressional pressure has caused the university to institute viewpoint-based investigations.

Complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.638553/gov.uscourts.nysd.638553.1.0.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.638553/gov.uscourts.nysd.638553.1.0.pdf
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March 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM

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COMPLAINT
PLAINTIFFS, Mahmoud Khalil, Jane Joe, Sally Roe, Ned Noe, Lucy Loe, Sam Soe, Will Moe,
And Kam Koe,1
by their ATTORNEYS, bring this Verified Complaint against DEFENDANTS:
Columbia University (“Columbia”); the Trustees of Columbia University; Barnard College
(“Barnard”); Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong, in her official capacity;
Laura Ann Rosenbury, in her official capacity; Representative Tim Walberg, in his official
capacity; and, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce; and
allege as follows:

INTRODUCTION
1. Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the enforcement of an overbroad
and overreaching February 13, 2025, Letter2
(the “Feb. 13 Letter”) issued by the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce (the “Committee”) demanding that
Columbia University and Barnard College (the “University”)3
produce all student or studentworker disciplinary records to the Committee relating to eleven specific incidents, which likely
involves the records of hundreds of students, and to enjoin the University from producing the
requested documents or any other student records prior to a finding by this Court.

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