Columbia University may have fended off the threat of class action lawsuits this week when it announced classes have shifted to virtual or hybrid amid ongoing safety concerns stemming from anti-Israel protests, according to a former law professor at the embattled school. Attorney Danny Karon, who used to teach at Columbia Law School and specializes in class action suits, felt Jewish students might have had a case earlier this week.
And these class actions are necessarily difficult, and it's necessarily tough to show that cohesiveness among a group of folks who then necessarily has people who feel different ways,' he continued. 'And that's, I think, what we're seeing in some respects here in a way that didn't exist before the school invoked this new policy.