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A response has been ordered to this request by 5p Thursday.
TEXT ORDER: Defendants shall file a response to Plaintiffs' Emergency Motion to Enforce Order Granting Preliminary Stay and Preliminary Injunction, ECF No. 83, by Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 5:00pm. So Ordered by District Judge Melissa R. DuBose on 12/3/2025. (Urizandi, Nissheneyra)
December 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The new grant application does have a savings clause on page 95, but the plaintiffs argue that doesn't ... save it.
10. If any part or provision of the grant Agreement or terms of this Notice have been or are enjoined or held to be void or unenforceable by a federal court, they shall be ineffective only to the extent of such court's authority and only as to such prohibition or enjoinment and shall not invalidate or affect the legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions and applications of the Agreement and Notice. In the event the enjoinment of such provisions is stayed, dissolved or reversed, the full terms of the grant agreement and Notice, including such provisions, will automatically become effective. The NOFO’s saving clause—providing that any terms that have been enjoined are “ineffective” and further providing that the terms will “automatically become effective” if an injunction is lifted, NOFO at 95—does not save the NOFO from violating the Court’s order. Cf. California v. Trump, 786 F. Supp. 3d 359, 382 (D. Mass. June 13, 2025), appeal pending, No. 25-1726 (holding that saving clause stating that executive order “shall be implemented consistent with applicable laws” could not “shield [order] from review” as that would render “judicial review … a meaningless exercise”). Indeed, Judge Smith recently held that similar language in another agency’s grant agreements was “not a good faith effort” to comply with a similar order. Illinois v. FEMA, No. 25-206, 2025 WL 2908807, at *1 (D.R.I. Oct. 14, 2025). Here, as in that case, Defendants’ imposition of the unlawful and enjoined conditions is “a ham-handed attempt to bully” applicants “into making promises they have no obligation to make at the risk of losing critical … Case 1:25-cv-00342-MRD-PAS Document 83 Filed 12/03/25 Page 5 of 10 PageID #: 1806 6 funding,” in violation of a court order. Id. And here, as in that case, the Court should enforce its Order by requiring Defendants to remove the violative terms. See id. at *1-2.
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Motion to enforce: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New HUD grant application: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum and Order – #77 in Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence v. Kennedy, Jr. (D.R.I., 1:25-cv-00342) – CourtListener.com
AMENDED MEMORANDUM AND ORDER GRANTING 30 Motion for Preliminary Injunction. So Ordered by District Judge Melissa R. DuBose on 10/23/2025. (Urizandi, Nissheneyra) (Entered: 10/23/2025)
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December 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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UPDATE: DC filed its opposition to the Trump admin's stay request, noting the deployment "exposes both the public and Guard members to substantial public safety risks ... as the horrific attack on two National Guard members last week tragically underscored." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
No. 25-5418 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, APPELLEE, V. DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al., APPELLANTS. ON APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OPPOSITION OF APPELLEE THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO APPELLANTS' EMERGENCY MOTION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE STAY AND FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL CAROLINE S. VAN ZILE Solicitor General ASHWIN P. PHATAK Principal Deputy Solicitor General STACY L. ANDERSON Senior Assistant Attorney General SARAH CARROLL Assistant Attorney General Office of the Solicitor General ALICIA M. LENDON Chief, Civil Rights and Elder Justice Section PAMELA DISNEY ANDREW MENDRALA CHARLES SINKS HANNAH COLE-CHU Assistant Attorneys General Public Advocacy Division BRIAN L. SCHWALB Attorney General for the District of Columbia EMMA SIMSON ELIZA H. SIMON MITCHELL P. REICH Senior Counsels to the Attorney General BENJAMIN MOSKOWITZ Assistant Deputy Attorney General Legal Counsel Division Office of the Attorney General TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND A. Legal Background. В. Factual Background С. Proceedings Below. DISCUSSION Defendants Are Unlikely To Succeed On The Merits. A. The deployment of DCNG is unlawful. B. The deployment of out-of-state troops is unlawful. II. Defendants Have Not Established Irreparable Injury. III. The District And The Public Would Suffer Serious Harm If The Injunction Were Stayed... CONCLUSION CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE ADDENDUM Because the present deployment of DCNG is unlawful, Defendants' remaining arguments for a stay fail, as well. Defendants do not dispute that, if the DCNG deployment is unlawful, their orders deploying out-of-state troops to support DCNG and operate under DCNG command are unlawful, too. In any event, those deployments independently exceed the President's authority to "request" state-commanded missions under section 502(f). Defendants' claim of irreparable harm simply repackages their claim on the merits; in notable contrast to other cases, Defendants do not argue the injunction would inflict any real-world harm. And the equities strongly disfavor a stay: the deployment impinges on the District's home rule, requires the diversion of scarce police resources, and exposes both the public and Guard members to substantial public safety risks, as Defendants themselves acknowledged at the outset of the deployment, and as the horrific attack on two National Guard members last week tragically underscored. The motion for a stay should be denied.
December 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This was the case where — more than two years ago now — SCOTUS denied a stay of the district court’s preliminary injunction pending appeal: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-flo...
Supreme Court denies Florida's request to enforce anti-drag law during appeal
A district court judge found Florida's new law likely unconstitutional after Hamburger Mary's of Orlando sued. Florida's underlying appeal will continue.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Here’s the panel opinion, now vacated: media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

Here was my earlier Law Dork report on the panel oral arguments: www.lawdork.com/p/eleventh-c...
Eleventh Circuit skeptical of Florida anti-drag law in Hamburger Mary's case
The Florida law, now at the Eleventh Circuit, has been blocked for more than a year. Also: The Fifth Circuit heard arguments over the future of DACA on Thursday.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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UPDATE: I added in the congressional response to the boat-strike section once I saw we had bipartisan, matching statements from both House and Senate Armed Services Committees. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
By Saturday night, bipartisan leaders of both the Senate Armed Services Committee and House Armed Services Committee had issued strong statements. The Senate leaders, Sens. Roger Wicker and Jack Reed, referencing “recent news reports — and the Department of Defense’s initial response — regarding alleged follow-on strikes on suspected narcotics vessels in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,“ stated that their committee had “directed inquiries to the Department, and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances.” The House leaders, Reps. Mike Rogers and Adam Smith, similarly stated that their committee is “committed to providing rigorous oversight of the Department of Defense’s military operations in the Caribbean,” adding that they “take seriously the reports of follow-on strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying narcotics in the SOUTHCOM region and are taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM