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A judge ordered federal agencies Friday to end their \u201cblanket policy of denying any future grants\u201d to the University of California, Los Angeles, and further ruled that the Trump administration can\u2019t seek payouts from any UC campus \u201cin connection with any civil rights investigation\u201d under Titles VI or IX of federal law. <\/p>\n
The ruling also prohibits the Department of Justice and federal funding agencies from withholding funds, \u201cor threatening to do so, to coerce the UC in violation of the First Amendment or Tenth Amendment.\u201d In all, the order, if not overturned on appeal, stops the administration\u2019s attempt to pressure UCLA to pay $1.2\u00a0billion and make multiple other concessions, including to stop enrolling \u201cforeign students likely to engage in anti-Western, anti-American, or antisemitic disruptions or harassment\u201d and stop \u201cperforming hormonal interventions and \u2018transgender\u2019 surgeries\u201d on anyone under 18 at its medical school and affiliated hospitals.<\/p>\n
The administration\u2019s targeting of the UC system came to the fore on July 29. That\u2019s when the DOJ said its months-long investigations across the system had so far concluded that UCLA violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and Title\u00a0VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in its response to alleged antisemitism at a spring 2024 pro-Palestinian protest encampment. <\/p>\n
Federal agencies\u2014including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and Department of Energy\u2014quickly began freezing funding; UC estimated it lost $584\u00a0million. But UC researchers sued and, even before Friday\u2019s ruling, U.S. District Court judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California ordered the restoration of almost all of the frozen funding. <\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s ruling came in a case filed this fall by the American Association of University Professors, the affiliated American Federation of Teachers and other unions. Lin again was the judge. <\/p>\n
\u201cDefendants did not engage in the required notice and hearing processes under Title\u00a0VI for cutting off funds for alleged discrimination,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n
\u201cWith every day that passes, UCLA continues to be denied the chance to win new grants, ratchetting [sic<\/em>] up Defendants\u2019 pressure campaign,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAnd numerous UC faculty and staff have submitted declarations describing how Defendants\u2019 actions have already chilled speech throughout the UC system. They describe how they have stopped teaching or researching topics they are afraid are too \u2018left\u2019 or \u2018woke,\u2019 in order to avoid triggering further funding cancellations by Defendants. They also give examples of projects the UC has stopped due to fear of the same reprisals. These are classic, predictable First Amendment harms, and exactly what Defendants publicly said that they intended.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A judge ordered federal agencies Friday to end their \u201cblanket policy of denying any future grants\u201d to the University of California, Los Angeles, and further ruled that the Trump administration can\u2019t seek payouts from any UC campus \u201cin connection with any civil rights investigation\u201d under Titles VI or IX of federal law. The ruling also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[492,522,9542,406,8391,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-33831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-blanket","9":"tag-demand","10":"tag-deny","11":"tag-grants","12":"tag-payout","13":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}