A federal judge ordered the Trump administration and allied agencies to stop a policy that denied future grants to University of California campuses, halting efforts to coerce concessions from UCLA and the wider UC system. U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin ruled agencies could not ‘blanket’ refuse new awards or seek payouts tied to civil‑rights probes and barred threats to withhold funding to chill speech. The order rescinds demands that UCLA pay roughly $1.2 billion and blocks efforts to condition grants on changes to campus clinical practices and enrollment policies. The decision follows lawsuits from faculty and unions, and arrives after an earlier preliminary restoration of nearly all frozen research funding.