The estate of Northwestern University professor Jane Wu, who died by suicide last year after being investigated in a controversial federal probe, is suing the school for allegedly discriminating against her and evicting her from her lab.
and forcibly admitted her to the university’s psychiatric hospital
Holy fuck. How is that not the thing leading the headline? That is just kidnapping with zero legal basis.
A 2021 investigation from the MIT Technology Review found that 148 individuals were charged, but just 40 of them had pleaded or been found guilty. Only 19 cases included violations of the Economic Espionage Act, the intended focus of the initiative.
Holy fuck. How is that not the thing leading the headline? That is just kidnapping with zero legal basis.
Just some blanket racism.
This is the part that gets me too. Not sure how they were able to do that without the family’s knowledge.
Universities in the US are real weird. The big ones even have their own private police.