Judge Bars DOJ From Reallocating Vera Institute Grants, for Now

The Justice Department is temporarily barred from reallocating grants that it pulled from the Vera Institute of Justice and four other groups offering violence intervention and victim support services, a federal trial judge ruled Monday.

The order comes as the organizations fight a July 7 decision rejecting their would-be class action that sought the reinstatement of $820 million worth of grants that the Justice Department abruptly terminated in April.

Judge Amit P. Mehta of the District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the case and denied the groups’ motion for an emergency injunction that would cancel the termination of ...