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The contract for Aramark-run dining workers, represented by UNITE HERE Local 11, expired Aug. 31, 2025. Workers struck across all four campuses in February, filed a safety complaint after a walkout over no cooling at a campus Panda Express, and saw two organizers arrested by ASU Police at a commencement protest.

Five weeks after suing, ASU withdrew its eminent domain case against the 1902 Louis Emerson House on July 17. The house will stay standing, and ASU says it will revise plans for its $200 million medical school site.

With Board of Regents approval, ASU filed an eminent domain suit to take the 1902 Louis Emerson House, the last parcel it wanted for a new medical school campus. The 89-year-old owner rejected offers of $190,000 and later $999,000, saying neither would cover moving the house, and a petition to save it began circulating.

The DOJ said viral undercover videos suggested ASU treated students differently by race and tried to hide it. The videos came from Accuracy in Media, a conservative group that secretly recorded ASU staff.

The Goldwater Institute sued ASU on behalf of Owen Anderson, a philosophy and religious studies professor of 21 years, over a required faculty training covering concepts like white privilege. It says staff must pass a test afterward, with failures reported to their dean, and that Anderson could be disciplined for refusing.

A former student alleged in a Title IX suit that ASU police refused to authorize a rape kit or drug screen after she was assaulted at a fraternity party, interviewed no fraternity members, and underreported campus assaults to look safer.

In J.K. v. Arizona Board of Regents, a former student sued under Title IX in 2006 over her rape and how ASU handled former football player Darnel Henderson; former head coach Dirk Koetter was also named. The Board of Regents paid her $850,000 from the state's self-insurance fund, which her lawyers called the second-largest sexual assault settlement on record.