Overview

• The injunction restores virtually all of the roughly 800 UCLA science grants frozen in July, totaling more than $500 million, building on earlier NSF restorations and adding DOT and DOD awards.
• Agencies had suspended funding using form letters that cited alleged race-based admissions, transgender participation in women’s sports, and insufficient action on antisemitism.
• Judge Rita Lin held that en masse, non‑specific terminations violated federal procedural law, expanding a class-action case that has already restarted funding across multiple agencies.
• Referencing a recent Supreme Court venue decision, Lin concluded UC researchers can proceed in district court despite limits that would push institutional claims to the Court of Federal Claims, and the Ninth Circuit previously declined to undo her earlier order.
• The administration must detail compliance by Sept. 29, as UC leaders resist a reported $1.2 billion settlement demand and separate lawsuits from faculty groups and unions challenge the government’s tactics.