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DOJ will now not terminate ABA’s home violence coaching grants
By Amanda Robert
July 21, 2025, 12:10 pm CDT
The U.S. Division of Justice has determined to finish its bid to cancel the ABA’s grants that assist home violence and sexual assault survivors. (Photograph by John O’Brien/ABA Journal)
The U.S. Division of Justice has determined to finish its bid to cancel the ABA’s grants that assist home violence and sexual assault survivors.
The DOJ terminated the grants—which assist practice and supply technical help to legal professionals who assist survivors of home violence and sexual assault—in April. The ABA filed a federal lawsuit difficult the DOJ’s actions later that month. And in Could, a federal decide granted the affiliation’s request for a preliminary injunction.
The DOJ declined to enchantment the Could ruling, and in response to requests from the ABA and the DOJ, U.S. District Choose Christopher Cooper of the District of Columbia administratively closed the case on Thursday, Reuters experiences. The case will stay on hiatus for 2 years except both aspect decides to reopen it.
The ABA will obtain $3.2 million in home violence coaching grants by way of 2027, Reuters additionally experiences.
“We’re happy to have defeated makes an attempt to retaliate towards our shopper for its train of its constitutional rights—and to have restored this important funding,” stated Skye Perryman of Democracy Ahead, a nonprofit authorized group that represents the ABA, in an announcement offered to Reuters.
The DOJ didn’t instantly return the ABA Journal’s request for remark.
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