Professor sues UCLA for suspending him after he refused request to mark black students' work more leniently than white students

A professor at the University of California in Los Angeles has sued the dean of his school for damages after he was suspended for refusing to mark the work of black and white students by different criteria.

Gordon Klein, a lecturer in accounting at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, who has been at UCLA for 40 years, filed his case on Monday in LA, he announced on Bari Weiss's Substack Honestly. 

He was suspended briefly by UCLA in the summer of 2020, amid a row about trauma caused by the George Floyd protests.

Klein said he was suing for unspecified damages 'not only to redress the wrongful conduct he has endured, but also to protect academic freedom.'