The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a federal court to compel the University of Pennsylvania to comply with a subpoena tied to an EEOC probe into alleged antisemitic discrimination, the agency said. Penn has resisted portions of the subpoena, citing privacy concerns and declining to turn over names of student and faculty members affiliated with Jewish organizations without consent. The dispute follows a commissioner charge alleging a hostile work environment for Jewish employees and students; EEOC argues the information is essential to its investigation. University officials say they produced extensive documents but object to turning over personal contact lists. The case underscores friction between federal investigators and campus privacy protections—and could set new precedents for how universities handle sensitive investigation requests that intersect with academic speech, religious identity and personnel privacy.
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