The judge’s administration orders the administration of reimbursement for UCLA research grants

The Federal Judge ordered the Trump Administration to restore some of the 800 grants for research on the federal sciences, which she stopped at UCLA last month, providing a major failure to force the university in an agreement for $ 1 billion.

California District Court Judge Rita F. Lynn ruled on Tuesday that suspension of suspensions violated her preliminary order, in which she ordered the National Scientific Foundation to reimburse 114 grants she had terminated at the University of California and blocked the agency to cancel other grants in the UC system.

“NSF’s actions violate the preliminary order,” Lynn writes.

Her order in June came after California’s lawyers in California claim that the termination of grants of science was arbitrary and capricious and in violation of federal law. These grants and others have been discontinued Above the alleged diversity, justice and violations of the inclusion after several Trump executives in January.

Lynn’s order to restore the terminated grants came in response to a Judicial Lawyers for the UC researchers submitted After 300 grants of the National Scientific Foundation and 500 National Institutes of Health Grates in UCLA are suspendedS Suspensions froze $ 584 millionS Lawyers do not act on behalf of the UC system, although some are hired in the UC. It is not yet clear whether all 300 suspended grants for national science should be restored under Lynn’s last order. Lynn told the Trump administration and the UC researchers’ lawyers to submit an update to the restoration on August 19.

Lynn’s last order did not restore the discontinued National Institutes of Science of UCLA, as they were not covered by its original order in June.

Campuses rely on funding to make scientific breakthroughs, develop new drugs, train graduates and nourish the research that the United States may have done by the world leader in the scientific discovery.

The federal government’s attorneys claim that the suspension of UCLA grant has not violated Lynn’s order in June, which prohibits termination but is silent on suspension. California researchers have said there is no difference between suspension and termination, as both average researchers lose access to funding. They also claim that, like the June case, the suspension of UCLA grant does not follow a federal procedure that requires an agency to explain why each individual grant should no longer continue to receive funding.

“NSF’s unspecified suspensions differ only from the termination of the name.” Lin wrote in the order on Tuesday. She added that letters informing UCLA about the suspension of grants “failed to provide” specific to the grants “about why the prize was terminated, as required by the preliminary order.”

Some federal judges have damaged the Trump administration that he has never determined what DEI thinks, but anyway cancels the funding of schools based on these violations.

“Although a new presidential administration has the right to develop programs with its selected priorities, the executive may not strive to suppress the ideas it considers to be dangerous by trying to drive them out of the ideas market”, “” Lin wrote in his preliminary order in JuneS

How did we get here

The Trump administration has terminated UCLA’s grant for claiming that the campus is not doing enough to combat anti -Semitism. The National Scientific Foundation sent a letter UCLA on August 1, which accused the campus of accepting students based on a race, although all public campuses in California were banned from affirmative actions, as state voters eliminated the practice in 1996.

The letter also accused Campus of reading essays to determine the candidate’s race. But when the United States Supreme Court annulled affirmative actions in 2023, the majority decision allowed campuses to allow students to write about their race and identity in the essay of acceptance.

The Scientific Foundation made Similar charges against Harvard University When he terminates the grants of this campus.

800 Suspensions for grants followed a federal report from the Ministry of Justice last month, who accused the campus of not doing enough address anti -Semitism, Particularly related to the events during last year’s pro-Palestin protests, including overnight bearings raised by protesters. The report came months after UCLA assigned a working group to investigate anti -Semitism in the campus and came up with recommendations that UCLA leaders said they would apply.

This report publishes The same day ucla He agrees to an agreement of $ 6.45 million with four Jewish claimants. This deal opposed several propalist teachers and studentsSome of whom are Jews.

Last year Federal judge in the case is on the part of Jewish plaintiffs who have said that anti -Israel moods shown by protesters in the camp have violated their religious freedoms Because of his spiritual ties with IsraelS “Jewish students were excluded from parts of the UCLA campus because they refused to deny their faith,” Judge Mark K. Skarsi wrote in his preliminary order.

Different Jewish groups debate Is Anti-Zionism is by its nature anti -SemiteS The Ucla camp included Jewish participants.

About a week later, on August 8, the Trump Administration sent a $ 1 billion proposal to settle the UCLA that the school will pay several installments in exchange for the return of the suspended scientific funds, CNN for the first time reportedS The agreement also seeks to ban the demonstrations overnight in UCLA, but it was already the campus policy before the spring protests last spring; UC confirmed these system prohibitions last fall.

How California answered

Governor Gavin Newo said Trump “threatened us by extortion with a billion dollars, unless we make a bid” at a press conference on Friday hours after CNN first reported Trump’s request. NEWSOM said “we’ll judge” Last Friday, when a reporter asked how California would answer. The Prosecutor General of the State already has brought 37 lawsuits Against the Trump administration, including several, tied to education funding.

White House Secretary Carolyn Levitt said “bring it, Gavin” At a press conference on TuesdayS

“Payment from this scale would devastate the most large public university system in our country, as well as it would cause great harm to our students and all Californians,” said UC President James B. Milikn In a statement to seek a settlement of $ 1 billionS UCLA also continued its media Blitz highlight the human benefits at the University of Health and Science.

The search for settlement “does not make Jewish students more festive”, the Committee on Jewish Public Affairs of California said in a statement Tuesday. Organizations 39 of the advocacy group that offer family services, political intercession, legal assistance for immigration and other non -profit work.

The Jewish Affairs Committee pointed a few steps UC and UCLA made to limit anti -Semitism and promote more festive campuses. “In California, meaningful progress is already underway,” the group writes.