From the Washington Examiner: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Monday to restore over $500 million in federal grants to the University of California system.
The Justice Department in July halted the distribution of federal grants worth $584 million due to the government’s findings that the academic institution had failed to take sufficient action to protect Jewish students on campus from antisemitic harassment.
U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin in San Francisco ruled this week that the Trump administration likely violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires specific procedures and explanations for federal funding cuts, when it notified the university about the funding cuts through form letters. She granted a preliminary injunction on the matter, meaning the government will be required to restore hundreds of millions in federal funding to the University of California system.
Lin, a judge in the Northern District Court of California, also wrote in her ruling that the government must restore millions of dollars in Department of War and Department of Transportation grants to UC schools.
ABOUT THIS JUDGE: Rita F. Lin was born in 1978 in Oakland, California to parents who were Taiwanese immigrants. A registered Democrat, she was appointed by Joe Biden in August 2022 to serve as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She was finally confirmed by the senate the next year, in September 2023, by a 52-45 vote.
Lin is the first Chinese American woman—to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
US District Judge Rita Lin granted a preliminary injunction, ordering the Trump administration to restore $500 million in grant funding to UCLA, finding the government likely violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires procedures and explanations for funding cuts. pic.twitter.com/bpjUS0BBZe
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) September 23, 2025
联邦法官Rita Lin命令川普当局立即解冻给UCLA的5亿美元的NIH资金，此前林法官已命令解冻给UCLA的8100万美元NSF资金（川普当局上诉到上诉庭，上诉庭不受理），这样UCLA只剩下300万美元的能源部资金还被冻结。林法官并注明该命令适用于UC所有分校。林法官是台湾移民后代，毕业于哈佛，和UC无关。 pic.twitter.com/sM8pWklvqw
— 方舟子 (@fangshimin) September 23, 2025
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump’s July de-funding of UCLA research: https://t.co/sKM3gNPvv9
— Jaweed Kaleem (@jaweedkaleem) September 23, 2025
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