SAN FRANCISCO — The UC Regents have asked a federal judge in San Francisco to turn back a request from former UC-Berkeley law dean Sujit Choudhry to block a disciplinary investigation related to sexual harassment allegations against him.

In court papers filed late Thursday evening, the school’s lawyers at Munger, Tolles & Olson wrote that it would be inappropriate for U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg to interfere with the school’s ongoing disciplinary proceeding, which has yet to run its course. The school’s lawyers also pushed back against the former dean’s claim that school officials had been racially biased in their handling of his case.

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