A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a portion of research grants it had suspended from UCLA earlier this month, after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged civil rights violations.

In a court order Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled that the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) had violated a temporary restraining order she had issued on June 23, which blocked federal research grant "terminations."

Her ruling in June was in a class-action lawsuit brought by researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley. Lin enjoined the NSF, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from "giving effect to any grant termination that results in the termination of funding."

Lin said the NSF violated her previ

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