In the spring of 2024, a group of anti-Israel students took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. There were two custodians in the building at the time who ultimately sued the school, claiming they were basically held hostage.
Now a New York judge has overturned the disciplinary actions against these students. Once again, the radical left is untouchable.
FOX News reports:
Columbia University ‘occupiers’ who held staff hostage have discipline overturned by NY judge
A New York state Supreme Court judge has vacated disciplinary sanctions against 22 former and current Columbia University students who took over Hamilton Hall in April 2024 during anti-Israel protests.
Justice Gerald Lebovits ruled on Feb. 27, 2026, that the university had improperly relied on sealed arrest records in its internal disciplinary proceedings against the students and the sealed arrests were the only evidence students were in the building during the occupation.
“Ultimately, this court concludes that the underlying disciplinary determinations were not impermissibly delayed. But respondent’s internal hearing panel was statutorily barred from taking into account the fact that petitioners had been arrested in Hamilton Hall,” Lebovits wrote. “And the fact of petitioners’ sealed arrests was the only evidence before the hearing panel that petitioners were in Hamilton Hall while it was occupied. As a result, the panel’s determinations that petitioners committed most of the charged disciplinary violations… are arbitrary and capricious.”