In a first victory for the UCLA, a federal judge orders the restoration of NSF subsidies that were suspended by the Trump administration.
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The US district judge Rita Lin has instructed the Trump government to restore part of the federal grants that they had suspended for the University of California, Los Angeles at the beginning of this month.
The judgment is a partial, if only temporary victory for the university in its dispute with the government about the claims that it had violated various civil rights laws.
In her command on Tuesday, Lin decided that the National Science Foundation had violated a temporary injunction, which she had given on June 23 about grants to researchers from the University of California of the EPA, NSF or NEH.
At this point in time, LIN transferred these agencies of “effect on the termination of the grants, which leads to the termination of the financing, in which the termination was sent by termination with a termination announcement that does not provide a grant-specific explanation for the termination, which indicates the reason for changing the original price decision and the conviction that the Heliance interests are at the view.”
Lin found that NSF had violated this arrangement by exposing the financing for UCLA research, and she ordered that all grants of the agency were restored between July 30 and August 12.
The decision seems to cover about 300 NSF subsidies, which represents a considerable proportion of the federal awards of 584 million US dollars on the Federal Awards that the administration had frozen on the UCLA. Grants from the National Institutes of Health are not included in their new decision.
The government's lawyers had argued that the latest UCLA financing was freezing an “indefinite suspension”, which made it distinguishable from the grants “terminations” that Lin had banned in June.
However, Lin dismissed this logic as a mere semantics and wrote: “Suspensions differ only from the termination of the name.” She added: “NSF may have re -established his lawsuit, but there is a distinction without a difference in this case. After all, a dismissed grant can be restored, as can be” removed “suspension. And if it is an indefinite length, a suspension is functionally identical to termination from the researcher's point of view. “
Last week, the Trump administration asked the UCLA to pay 1 billion US dollars and to make changes in various campus guidelines and rules to solve the administration that the institution committed violations of civil rights and took illegal positive measures. This payment would have made it possible for the university to regain access to their grant.
The UCLA is found as the first top -class public facility that has threatened its research financing from the government about the view of many university leaders, a mere strategy that is based on questionable charges and compulsory tactics. Columbia University has negotiated an agreement of 200+ million US dollars with the administration, an approach that Brown University also followed with a payment of $ 50 million. Harvard University and Cornell University are still reported to the government about potential settlements.
James Milliken, President of the UC system, replied that the UC “checked” the demands of the administration, and added last week that “we as public university would cause an administrator of taxpayers' resources and a payment of this size for the largest public university system in our country and all Californians and all Californians.” Milliken also said that the university “offered to deal with the department to protect the university and its critical research mission.”
However, the UCLA dispute quickly escalated to the political theater. The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, said: “Donald Trump (Ministry of Justice) frees the freezing of Medical & Science Finance agents #1 of the #1 public university functions until @ucla pays his 1 -Milliarde resolution.” In a contribution from August 9 on X. “
The Trump team shot back yesterday. “Bring it to Gavin,” said Karoline Leavitt, press spokeswoman for the White House when she was asked for the government's demands for the government's demands.
“This administration lies in your legal right to do this, and we would like to ensure that our universities and universities respect the rights of the 1st change, and the religious freedom of students on their campus and UCLA have not made this, and I have a whole list of examples that I will forward to the press office of Gavin Newsom when he has seen himself, said Leavitt.