In a 6-3 decision Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a temporary restraining order that required “reasonable suspicion” in federal immigration stops in Los Angeles and surrounding areas and outlined that race, among other factors, couldn’t be used as reasonable suspicion.

The Supreme Court paused the order issued on July 11 in a case that involves multiple advocacy-based organizations and Southern California residents suing U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and other federal officials over alleged unlawful immigration enforcement actions in Southern California earlier this year.

U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong had granted a temporary restraining order in the case, ordering that federal immigration enforcement agents

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