A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore part of the federal research funding it froze for the University of California, Los Angeles, ruling that the suspensions violated an earlier court order. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said the National Science Foundation’s decision to halt payments flouted her June injunction that barred the agency from terminating UCLA grants and required individual explanations for any cutoffs. The administration suspended about $584 million across roughly 800 grants—including some 300 NSF awards and 500 from the National Institutes of Health—after alleging the university failed to curb antisemitism during pro-Palestinian protests. Last week the White House sought a $1 billion settlement and a $172 million claims fund in exchange for lifting the freeze, a demand UCLA and California officials warned would cripple the public university system. In Tuesday’s ruling, Lin rejected the government’s argument that “suspensions” differ from “terminations,” calling the distinction a semantic attempt to sidestep her injunction. She ordered the NSF to reinstate the affected grants and gave the administration until Aug. 19 to report on its compliance. The decision does not directly address NIH-funded projects, which were not covered by the earlier order. The UCLA dispute is the most expensive in a series of federal actions linking university research money to campus responses to antisemitism. Columbia University has agreed to pay more than $220 million and Brown University $50 million in similar settlements, while talks with Harvard continue.