Did MIT ever issue a trespass order on Aaron Swartz?
While MIT is a private university and thus is private property, it is also very open to the general public. For instance, if you happen to be near MIT (e.g., for Bostons Fourth of July celebrations), and you need to use restrooms with running water and not Portapotties, you can saunter into MIT. Having known one person who became persona non grata as well as working with the campus police for a few incidents, you have to do something quite bad (like non-student members of the Boston Church of Christ who were zealously proselytizing or Chinatown punks smoking in the basement of the Student Center) before the Campus Police will escort you off campus on sight. (Repeated offenses and they will book you.) I forget when Carmen Ortiz as the U.S. Attorney (Department of Justice) was called in, but the FBI was also called in. (I would think that JSTOR probably brought the federal authorities in, and once theyre involved, MIT could only cooperate with the investigation.)