On Tuesday morning, several dozen UCSC students and supporters crowded shoulder-to-shoulder in the Santa Cruz County Superior Court courtroom of Judge Syda Cogliati to hear results of the predisposition hearing.
The lawsuit, filed by the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, and civil rights attorney Thomas Seabaugh, argues that campus policy requires a hearing for each student before findings sustaining the temporary campus ban can be made.
Attorneys for the university argued Tuesday that the imminent risk of harm caused by protesters merited the ban under California Penal Code Section 626.4, citing examples of imminent danger from confrontations between cars and protesters.
While the matter of blocking protesters' campus bans without a hearing remains to be litigated at trial, Cogliati said she would not grant the order for the case's interim, stating the need to balance issues related to community risk of harm.
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