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Federal judge is 'inclined' to order Trump to restore $500 million in UCLA research grants
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Los Angeles Times
A federal judge Thursday said she was “inclined to extend” an earlier ruling and order the Trump administration to restore an additional $500 million in UCLA medical research grants that were frozen in response to the university’s alleged campus antisemitism violations.
The judge’s reasoning: The UCLA grants were suspended by form letters that were unspecific to the research, a likely violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, which regulates executive branch rule-making.
AdvertisementThe suit was filed in June by UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley professors fighting a separate, earlier round of Trump administration grant clawbacks.
The Trump administration has proposed a roughly $1.2-billion fine and demanded campus changes over admission of international students and protest rules.
If the UCLA NIH grants are reinstated, it would leave about $3 million from the July suspensions — all Department of Energy grants — still frozen at UCLA.
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