FORT LAUDERDALE – An expelled Black student claiming racist AI called her a cheater must pursue some of her lawsuit in arbitration, while the rest of her case has been thrown out.

Florida federal judge David Leibowitz made that decision July 22 in the 2023 lawsuit brought by Christelle Mazile, who was kicked out of Larkin University after technology from ExamSoft found she was cheating while taking her finals remotely during the COVID pandemic.

She sued ExamSoft and Larkin, noting previous concerns from U.S. senators like Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. They and four other Democrats wrote the company in December 2020 after media reports claimed minorities and students with disabilities using ExamSoft were wrongly accused of cheating.