A district judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration must restore part of the $584 million in funding it froze from the University of California, Los Angeles.

The ruling is the result of a class action lawsuit filed by researchers at the University of California system.

Rita Lin, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ruled that the National Science Foundation’s suspension of funds from UCLA violated a preliminary injunction from June barring the foundation from terminating grants to UC research projects.

The foundation is an independent U.S. agency.

The district judge didn’t find the Trump administration’s argument compelling—that it was suspending but not terminating funding. She wrote that the suspensions were indefinite, and the fo

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