Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, along with the Democracy Defenders Fund and Hangly Aronchick Segal Pudlin and Schiller, filed a motion to join EEOC v. The University of Pennsylvania on behalf of five UPenn organizations Wednesday.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is demanding UPenn turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community. It claims the demand is part of the administration's goal of combating anti-semitism on campuses.
Some of UPenn's faculty and staff have denounced the demand as "a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government 'lists of Jews' conjures a terrifying history," said a press release put out by attorneys of the lawyers.
The lawsuit was filed against Penn in November because the university refused to fully comply.
On Tuesday, the American Association of University Professors' national and Penn chapters, the university's Jewish Law Students Association and its Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty, and the American Academy of Jewish Research filed a motion in federal court to intervene in the case.
