SACRAMENTO—A sternly worded ruling from a federal judge in California has found that Nexstar violated a preliminary injunction pausing completion of its acquisition of Tegna. The judge also ordered the station group to remove its employees from Tegna’s board of directors. It is clearly the spirit of the preliminary injunction that Nexstar executives would be prohibited from serving as not just Tegna officers, but Tegna directors as well. In the August 5 order, which became publicly available on August 6, Judge Nunley also required that Nexstar must reconstitute Tegna's board to exclude Nexstar employees. The Judge also admonished Nexstar for not notifying the court that it had appointed Nexstar executives to the board.