Ex-UC Berkeley Dean Claims Racial Discrimination

Ex-U.C. Berkeley Law School Dean Sujit Choudhry filed a lawsuit on Thursday that accuses the university’s governing board of making him “a pariah” and discriminating based on his race, in the wake of a scandal in which his assistant accused him of inappropriate hugging and kissing.

Choudhry filed his suit in Oakland federal court against the University of California Regents, and its individual members on claims they violated his fourteenth amendment rights to due process, equal protection and against racial discrimination.

The suit centers on the university’s response to allegations by Choudhry’s former assistant that he acted inappropriately towards her, which included — by his ...