A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants that it suspended at UCLA last month, delivering a major setback to efforts to force the university into a $1 billion settlement.

California district court judge Rita F. Lin ruled Tuesday that the suspensions violated her June preliminary injunction in which she ordered the National Science Foundation to restore 114 grants it had terminated at the University of California and blocked the agency from cancelling other grants at the UC system.

”NSF’s actions violate the Preliminary Injunction,” Lin wrote.

Her June order came after lawyers for University of California researchers argued the science foundation grant terminations were arbitrary and capricious and in violation of

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