As the new Trump administration takes decisive measures to enforce civil rights laws and antidiscrimination policies on America’s campuses, the courts continue to play a vital, if sometimes slow, role in the process.

Last Tuesday, UCLA Anderson School of Management accounting lecturer Gordon Klein finally got his day in court, more than five years after he was suspended for an E-mail reply to a student’s request that he grade Black students more leniently because of the George Floyd incident.

Klein’s reply raised the logical questions of how he could tell which students in the class — conducted online because of the COVID-19 pandemic — were Black, how he should grade students who are half-Black, whether white students from Minneapolis were also entitled to lenient grading, and whether the student who contacted him agreed with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that people should not be judged by the color of their skin.

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