FROM NBC NEWS: A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration late Tuesday night, ordering the government to partially restore science funding to UCLA in a major class action lawsuit filed by researchers from the University of California school system.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ordered the National Science Foundation to reinstate suspended grants to UCLA, following a hearing on the case over what the plaintiffs describe as the Trump administration’s “arbitrary, capricious, and unlawful” termination of research grants. She gave the Trump administration one week to show that it is complying with the order.
The decision comes weeks after the Trump administration suspended some $584 million in federal grants for the school, roughly a third of which are from the National Science Foundation, due to claims of inadequate handling of antisemitism on campus. The funding freeze, Lin wrote, was in violation of a preliminary injunction on science grant terminations that she had handed down in June.
The University of California school system told NBC News, “While we have not had an opportunity to review the court’s order and were not party to the suit, restoration of National Science Foundation funds is critical to research the University of California performs on behalf of California and the nation.”
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