Olivet University will remain operational under religious exemption laws and plans to appeal the ruling.
On Friday, the Los Angeles Times published an article about a California-based Christian Bible college confining its students with barbed wire fences and forcing them to do unpaid labor. The story is a rehashing of a year-old lawsuit against the school that has already been dismissed and stayed. School officials, staff and students immediately expressed outrage at what several of them said were utterly false claims lobbed at Olivet University.