Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate detained by the Trump administration last weekend, and seven current students asked a federal court on Thursday to block the school from producing student disciplinary records to a House committee that demanded them last month.

The committee’s request and the school’s compliance with it would violate the First Amendment rights of Mr. Khalil and the students and the university’s obligation to protect student privacy, the lawsuit said.

The seven current students also asked the court to allow them to proceed anonymously and are referred to in the lawsuit with pseudonyms like Sally Roe and Ned Noe.

Last month, the House Committee on Education and Workforce sent a letter to Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Columbia’s interim president, and the university board chairs, David Greenwald and Claire Shipman, that said “numerous antisemitic incidents” had taken place.

It demanded disciplinary records connected to 11 incidents dating to the previous school year, including the student “takeover and occupation” of Hamilton Hall last April, a protest against a class taught by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the disruption of an Israeli history class.

Mr. Khalil, a prominent figure in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the campus, was arrested by federal immigration agents in New York on Saturday and is being held in Louisiana. He earned a master’s degree from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs in December.

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