A federal judge this week halted the administration’s effort to summarily cancel and withhold research funding from the University of California, issuing an injunction that stops agencies from enforcing a blanket policy to deny future grants. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled the government must provide notice and hearings before rescinding awards, and barred demands for multi-billion-dollar payouts tied to civil-rights probes. The rulings came after the Department of Justice and federal agencies froze or delayed hundreds of millions in NIH, NSF and DOE awards amid civil-rights inquiries into campus protests. UC leaders including President James B. Milliken had warned that the loss of research dollars would devastate labs and career-track faculty. The decision restores a measure of stability for federally funded research across UC campuses while litigation proceeds; it also signals that courts will scrutinize funding-withdrawal tactics that universities say chill speech and research collaboration.