The Justice Department sued the University of California on Tuesday, accusing its Los Angeles campus of endemic antisemitism that compromised the civil rights of Jewish employees.
The lawsuit represents a significant escalation in the long-running dispute between the Trump administration and the university system, one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious. Last summer, the Justice Department threatened to sue the system unless it agreed to a range of policy concessions and payments that would have amounted to more than $1 billion.
The university system referred a request for comment to U.C.L.A., which did not immediately respond.
