Major Conservative Civil Rights Lawsuit Proceeds Against UC Berkeley

Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet K. Dhillon founded Dhillon Law Group in 2006. After many years serving as our Managing Partner, she departed the firm in 2025 to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.

The University of California at Berkeley may soon pay a price for trampling the First Amendment rights of conservative speakers and students on its storied campus.

That’s because a federal judge rejected the campus administration’s request to summarily dismiss an important civil rights lawsuit filed by the Young America’s Foundation and Berkeley College Republicans after their speakers and members received abominable treatment at the school.

“It is good news that the case is going forward,” Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said after the ruling. “The First Amendment is a core constitutional principle, and every government policy that restricts, censors, or bars otherwise legal speech is unconstitutional.”

(The case is Young America’s Foundation v. Napolitano. The relevant order may be viewed here.)

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Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet K. Dhillon founded Dhillon Law Group in 2006. After many years serving as our Managing Partner, she departed the firm in 2025 to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.