From the LA Times: A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from imposing a $1.2-billion fine on UCLA along with stipulations for deep campus changes in exchange for being eligible for federal grants. The decision is a major win for universities that have struggled to resist President Trump’s attempt to discipline “very bad” universities that he claims have mistreated Jewish students, forcing them to pay exorbitant fines and agree to adhere to conservative standards...
“The administration and its executive agencies are engaged in a concerted campaign to purge ‘woke,’ ‘left,’ and ‘socialist’ viewpoints from our country’s leading universities,” [U.S. District Judge Rita F.] Lin wrote in her opinion... Defendants submit nothing to refute this.” “It is undisputed,” Lin added, “that this precise playbook is now being executed at the University of California.” ...
Lin’s injunction is not the final say on the case... The government... could appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals as it has done for other cases...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-14/federal-judge-blocks-trump-administation-from-imposing-billion-fine-ucla.
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