Penn must release names of employees affiliated with Jewish organizations to Trump administration, judge rules

Susan Snyder, The Philadelphia Inquirer on Mar 31, 2026

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PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania must release lists of employees affiliated with Jewish organizations on its campus and comply with other measures in a federal agency’s subpoena, a federal court judge ruled Tuesday.

But the school does not have to state which particular organization each employee is affiliated with, said U.S. District Judge Gerald J. Pappert.

In a 32-page ruling, Pappert largely dismissed arguments from Penn and others who intervened on the school’s behalf that releasing the information sought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would put employees at risk, create an undue burden on the school, and cause employees to disaffiliate from such groups.

“Penn and other groups and associations the Court permitted to intervene significantly raised the dispute’s temperature by impliedly and even expressly comparing the EEOC’s efforts to protect Jewish employees from antisemitism to the Holocaust and the Nazis’ compilation of ‘lists of Jews,’” Pappert wrote. “Such allegations are unfortunate and inappropriate.”

Penn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The university has until May 1 to comply with the subpoena, though it could decide to appeal the decision.

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