The Daily Bruin covers breaking news relevant to the UCLA community as it happens. This page includes coverage of the July 2025 trial between plaintiff Gordon Klein, a UCLA accounting lecturer, and defendants Antonio Bernardo, dean of the Anderson School of Management, and the UC Board of Regents. UCLA suspended Klein in June 2020 for an email in which he rejected a student’s request for him to provide grading accommodations to Black students in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. In the email, Klein suggested that providing said accommodations would constitute “special treatment” for Black students and that white students from Minnesota might “be even more devastated” by Floyd’s murder. Klein is requesting over $22 million in damages, alleging that UCLA’s suspension destroyed his reputation and caused him emotional distress. Read the Daily Bruin’s trial preview here for more information.