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The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California (UCLA) after a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation found it had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, CNN reports.
Last month, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she was planning to “force UCLA to pay a heavy price for putting Jewish Americans at risk and continue our ongoing investigations into other campuses in the UC system.” The administration began freezing around $584 million in funding and grants to the college last week.
On Friday, a draft of a proposed agreement, obtained by CNN, was sent to the school which ordered UCLA to pay $1 billion in installments, plus a $172 million claims fund for people impacted by the Title VII violations.
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