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UCLA settles lawsuit with Tasered student

Los Angeles Times: UCLA settles lawsuit with Tasered student

UCLA said today that the university would pay $220,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a student who was repeatedly stunned with a Taser gun by campus police after he refused to show his identification or leave the school library.

Mostafa Tabatabainejad, then a 23-year-old senior at UCLA, was in the library in November 2006 when a security guard — conducting a routine check to make sure everyone present after 11 p.m. was a student or otherwise authorized to be there — asked him to provide identification. Tabatabainejad, a U.S. citizen of Iranian descent, refused, saying later that he thought he was being singled out because of his Middle Eastern appearance.

UCLA Scientists Plan Counterprotest in Favor of Animal Testing

The Chronicle News Blog: UCLA Scientists Plan Counterprotest in Favor of Animal Testing

A group of students and scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles will try to beat animals-rights protesters at their own game tomorrow by demonstrating in favor of using animals for research purposes, which they consider crucial to developing live-saving medical breakthroughs.

UCLA professor stands up to violent animal rights activists

Los Angeles Times: UCLA professor stands up to violent animal rights activists

J. David Jentsch organizes a campus rally April 22 of those who believe biomedical testing on animals saves human lives. His car was set on fire March 7, allegedly by opponents of testing.