The GOP-controlled House Education and the Workforce Committee withdrew a request for records on Northwestern University’s law clinics after its leaders filed a lawsuit Wednesday.

“The committee is not seeking these documents anymore. Period,” House general counsel Matthew Berry said at a court hearing Thursday.

Sheila Bedi, director of the university’s Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic, and Lynn Cohn, co-director of Northwestern’s Center on Negotiation, Mediation and Restorative Justice, filed the suit........

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