Restore part of suspended UCLA funding, judge orders

A United States judge on Tuesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to restore part of the federal grant funding it recently suspended for the University of California, Los Angeles, report Kanishka Singh and Nate Raymond for Reuters.

US District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco ruled that the grant funding suspensions violated an earlier June preliminary injunction where she ordered the National Science Foundation to restore dozens of grants it had terminated at the University of California. That order had blocked the agency from cancelling other grants at the University of California system, of which UCLA is a part. “NSF’s actions violate the Preliminary Injunction,” Lin, an appointee of Democratic former President Joe Biden, wrote. The White House and the university had no immediate comment on the ruling.

The Los Angeles Times newspaper reported that the judge’s order asked for the restoration of more than a third of the suspended US$584 million funding.
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