Overview

• The lawsuit, filed July 10 in the Northern District of California, accuses Stanford of ignoring pervasive antisemitic hostility that emerged after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.
• Dr. Shay Laps alleges lab director Danny Chou fabricated a sexual harassment complaint and threatened deportation when Laps raised discrimination concerns.
• The complaint details how lab staff locked Laps out of the Danny Chou Lab, tampered with insulin experiments and withheld critical equipment to undermine his diabetes treatment project.
• Stanford’s Title IX office confirmed no investigation ever took place and an internal probe concluded Laps’s allegations were unsubstantiated.
• The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has been investigating campus antisemitism since December 2023 and warned Stanford in May that it violated federal civil-rights law.