A federal judge issued an injunction this week blocking the Trump administration’s effort to cut or demand payouts from University of California campuses without notice and hearings. Judge Rita Lin found agency actions seeking to withhold grants over alleged campus discrimination violated procedural and constitutional protections, and she ruled the government can’t use funding threats to coerce speech changes. The decision follows months of federal investigations into alleged antisemitism at UCLA and broader enforcement actions across the UC system. Lin said unions and faculty declarations showed a pattern of coercive conduct by administration officials, and she ordered agencies including DOJ and federal funders to stop blanket denials and punitive demands while litigation proceeds. The ruling restores most frozen grants and blocks a $1.2 billion demand tied to UCLA; UC officials and national faculty groups framed the order as a check on what they called political targeting of universities. The decision will shape how federal civil‑rights probes interact with campus speech and research funding going into 2026.