Overview
- U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a preliminary injunction that blocks the government from immediately cutting University of California funding or imposing fines.
- Her ruling bars officials from seeking payments or tying federal dollars to ideological conditions in investigations of the 10‑campus system.
- The decision pauses enforcement of a proposed $1.2 billion penalty and a research funding freeze aimed at UCLA, which UC leaders warned would be devastating.
- The lawsuit was filed by unions representing UC faculty, staff and students alleging coercive, retaliatory conduct, while UC is not a party and remains in settlement talks.
- The injunction is temporary and could be appealed, as federal probes and earlier settlements with Brown and Columbia continue to influence campus policy fights.