The Trump administration cancelled hundreds of grants awarded to Harvard University researchers on the grounds that the school failed to do enough to address harassment of Jewish students on its campus.

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully terminated about $2.2-billion in grants awarded to Harvard University and can no longer cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston marked a major legal victory for Harvard as it seeks to cut a deal that could bring an end to the White House’s multi-front conflict with the nation’s oldest and richest university.

The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school became a central focus of the administration’s broad campaign

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