A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a lower-court temporary restraining order that bars federal agents from making immigration-related arrests in the Los Angeles area without probable cause. The appeals court, in an unsigned ruling late Friday, said the plaintiffs are likely to prove that the Trump administration’s raids relied on factors such as apparent race, language and workplace location rather than individualized suspicion. The decision leaves in place U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong’s 12 July order, which prohibits agents from detaining people solely because they speak Spanish or accented English, appear Latino, or are present at locations including bus stops, car washes and farms. The Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement had sought to pause the order while the case proceeds. Los Angeles and other Southern California municipalities joined the lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and other groups, alleging unconstitutional sweeps that have resulted in nearly 3,000 arrests since early June. Protests against the raids prompted President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to the city in June—an extraordinary use of military force in domestic law enforcement. A hearing on whether to convert the temporary order into a preliminary injunction is scheduled for September.