The University of California must reconsider its policy barring students living in the country illegally from on-campus jobs because the practice is discriminatory, a state appeals court ruled this week.

The ruling does not require UC to change the policy but requires that the university “not rely on litigation risk alone” as justification for it. The system has seven days to revisit its policy.

The California Court of Appeal’s decision comes months after a UCLA alumnus, Jeffry Umaña Muñoz, and UCLA lecturer, Iliana Perez, filed a lawsuit in October alleging UC’s policy is discriminatory, stifles academic and professional opportunities for students living in the country illegally and forces them to seek more dangerous and “exploitative” work opportunities off campus.

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