A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s broad effort to cut or withhold federal research grants from the University of California system without standard notice-and-hearing procedures. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued an injunction that prohibits agencies from adopting a “blanket policy” of denying future grants to UCLA and from demanding payouts tied to civil-rights probes. The ruling follows a flurry of funding freezes by NIH, NSF and DOE tied to the administration’s investigations into campus incidents and alleged discrimination. The decision arose from litigation brought by faculty unions and other groups representing UC employees; the court found the government failed to follow Title VI procedures and that its actions had chilled speech and research on campus. University officials had warned earlier that a $1.2 billion demand to restore frozen funding would be devastating to the UC system. The order restores a measure of stability to UC grant-making while leaving open appeals by federal agencies.