“A white student has filed a lawsuit against a New York law school alleging racial and political discrimination from one of its professors,” reports Campus Reform.
Rowland Rupp, who attends Albany Law School of Union University, filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that Professor Anthony Farley “intentionally deactivated the classroom’s audio recording system and abandoned course instruction, launching instead into a hostile political and racial monologue directed at white conservative students.”
The complaint, filed by the Rupp Pfalzgraf law firm, alleges that Professor Farley started his rant by calling the Founding Fathers “worse than Hitler” and asserting that “the only ‘real’ September 11 students should care about was the 1973 CIA-backed overthrow of Chile.”
Professor Farley then allegedly targeted whites and conservatives, declaring that conservatives “hate everyone – blacks, women, gays” and that they seek to “conserve slavery.” He derided Rupp’s personal appearance while saying it was “what conservatives look like,” referring to it as “Daniel Boone” while staring at Rupp.
He continued the harassment on Facebook, describing Rupp as having an “incel/MAGA look”, wearing “Daniel Boone” clothing, and sporting a “Remember the Alamo” hat.
Rupp alleges that he approached the professor after experiencing “thirty minutes of this abuse” and “briefly placed his hand on Professor Farley’s shoulder in a non-threatening manner, stated in substance that he was leaving and would not be returning to the course, wished the professor good luck, and calmly left the classroom to drop the class and report Professor Farley’s unprofessional conduct to Albany Law School administrators.”
After leaving class, Rupp filed a complaint against Farley, which was essentially ignored by Albany Law School. The court complaint says that “no investigation was initiated, no witnesses were interviewed, and no findings were made regarding Professor Farley’s conduct before Mr. Rupp’s complaint was unceremoniously dropped by the School over eight months after the January 13, 2025 incident.”
Campus Reform says that
When Farley was made aware of the complaint, despite the supposed confidential nature of such grievances, he filed a “retaliatory disciplinary complaint” against him, claiming that he was assaulted by Rupp and subjected to a “crazy and racist scene.” Prior to this, Farley had described Rupp’s exit as simply “disruptive” and a “performance,” but did not allege being victimized by any violence or racially-motivated conduct.
The investigation into Farley’s complaint was apparently handled in starkly different terms, with the school recruiting the advocacy of the Black Law Students Association, which Farley advises, and multiple DEI officials in violation of school policy. It also states that Farley refused to comply with the school’s investigator until he was able to convince the school to “escalate the allegations against [Rupp] outside of the process specified in the Disciplinary Code.”
The lawsuit claims that the school violated Rupp’s “due process rights” and determined his “guilt in advance of the hearing he had requested.”
This is not the first incident involving Farley’s classroom conduct. The complaint says that he regularly launched into racially and politically charged rants that “singled out white conservative students through abusive and racial stereotypes.” The school failed to discipline Farley and went as far as advising white conservative students to avoid taking his classes.
Farley also accused his colleagues of racism when faced with complaints “on academic or institutional matters.”
Rupp’s lawsuit against the school is brought under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d), alleging that based on his race, he suffered “loss of scholarship funds, disruption of his academic progress, reputational injury, and severe emotional distress.”
Todd Kerner, a lawyer and alumnus of the law school, criticized Albany Law School, describing it as a “hate-filled institution, with professors who openly hate America, hate Jews, and embrace radical leftist ideology.”
John Sly, another lawyer and alumnus of Albany Law School, expressed dismay about what Albany Law School has become, writing, “Truly stunning what has become of our alma mater.”
