{"id":89654,"date":"2025-12-10T21:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89654\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:58:13","slug":"judge-rejects-us-bid-to-toss-california-high-speed-rail-lawsuit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89654\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge rejects US bid to toss California high-speed rail lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WASHINGTON, Dec 10 &#8211; A U.S. judge Wednesday \u200brejected the Justice \u200cDepartment&#8217;s bid to toss out \u200ca lawsuit filed by California to challenge the move by President \u2060Donald Trump&#8217;s \u200cadministration to cancel more than $4 billion \u200din federal grants for the state&#8217;s high-speed rail project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u200bCalifornia High Speed \u200cRail Authority in July filed suit that challenged the cancellation as an &#8220;arbitrary and capricious&#8221; abuse \u2060of authority. U.S. \u200bDistrict Judge \u200bDale Drozd rejected the government&#8217;s argument that \u200dthe case \u2060belongs in the U.S. Court of Federal \u2060Claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by David Shepardson \u200cin Washington, Editing by \u200cFranklin Paul)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, Dec 10 &#8211; A U.S. judge Wednesday \u200brejected the Justice \u200cDepartment&#8217;s bid to toss out \u200ca lawsuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2672,49839,7,9,8,49840,536],"class_list":["post-89654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-administration","tag-arbitrary-and-capricious","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-david-shepardson","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89654","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=89654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}