{"id":54476,"date":"2025-11-15T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54476\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:05:07","slug":"trump-barred-from-fining-university-of-california-over-alleged-discrimination-federal-judge-rita-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54476\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump barred from fining University of California over alleged discrimination federal judge Rita Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California<\/a> or summarily cut the school system\u2019s federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, <\/a>a federal judge ruled late Friday in a sharply worded decision.<\/p>\n

US District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction barring the administration from cancelling funding to UC based on alleged discrimination<\/a> without giving notice to affected faculty and conducting a hearing, among other requirements.<\/p>\n

The administration over the summer demanded the\u00a0University of California, Los Angeles<\/a>\u00a0pay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research funding and ensure eligibility for future funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump speaks at a signing event at the White House on Nov. 13, 2025. Andrew Leyden\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

UCLA was the first public university to be targeted<\/a> by the administration over allegations of civil rights violations.<\/p>\n

It has also\u00a0frozen or paused federal funding\u00a0over similar claims against private colleges, including Columbia University.<\/p>\n

In her ruling, Lin said labor unions and other groups representing UC faculty, students and employees had provided \u201coverwhelming evidence\u201d that the Trump administration was \u201cengaged in a concerted campaign to purge \u2018woke,\u2019 \u2018left,\u2019 and \u2018socialist\u2019 viewpoints from our country\u2019s leading universities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAgency officials, as well as the President and Vice President, have repeatedly and publicly announced a playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune,\u201d Lin wrote.<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cIt is undisputed that this precise playbook is now being executed at the University of California.\u201d<\/p>\n

At UC, which is facing a series of civil rights probes, she found the administration had engaged in<\/a> \u201ccoercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

US District Judge Rita Lin barred the Trump administration from cancelling funding to UC based on alleged discrimination without giving notice to affected faculty and conducting a hearing. REUTERS<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Florida on Nov. 14, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Messages sent to the White House and the US Department of Justice after hours Friday were not immediately returned. Lin\u2019s order will remain in effect indefinitely.<\/p>\n

University of California President James B. Milliken has said the size of the UCLA fine would devastate the UC system, whose campuses are viewed as some of the top public colleges in the nation.<\/p>\n

UC is in settlement talks with the administration and is not a party to the lawsuit before Lin, who was nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden, a Democrat.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the university system said it \u201cremains committed to protecting the mission, governance, and academic freedom of the University.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The administration has demanded UCLA comply with its views on gender identity and establish a process to make sure foreign students are not admitted if they are likely to engage in anti-American, anti-Western or antisemitic \u201cdisruptions or harassment,\u201d among other requirements outlined in a settlement proposal made public in October.<\/p>\n

The administration has previously struck deals with Brown University for $50 million and Columbia University for $221 million.<\/p>\n

Lin cited declarations by UC faculty and staff that the administration\u2019s moves were prompting them to stop teaching or researching topics they were \u201cafraid were too \u2018left\u2019 or \u2018woke.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

University of California President James B. Milliken has said the size of the UCLA fine would devastate the UC system, whose campuses are viewed as some of the top public colleges in the nation. AP<\/p>\n

Her injunction also blocks the administration from \u201cconditioning the grant or continuance of federal funding on the UC\u2019s agreement to any measures that would violate the rights of Plaintiffs\u2019 members under the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

She cited efforts to force the UCs to screen international students based on \u201c\u2019anti-Western\u201d or \u201c\u2018anti-American\u2019\u201d views, restrict research and teaching, or adopt specific definitions of \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale\u201d as examples of such measures.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has decried elite colleges as overrun by liberalism and antisemitism.<\/p>\n

His administration has launched investigations of dozens of universities, claiming they have failed to end the use of racial preferences in violation of civil rights law.<\/p>\n

The Republican administration says diversity, equity and inclusion efforts discriminate against white and Asian American students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system\u2019s federal funding over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,4228,13469,536,6286,13,2012,3586],"class_list":["post-54476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-discrimination","tag-donald-trump","tag-fines","tag-politics","tag-university-of-california","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}