Open Technology Fund demonstrated that it should receive injunctive relief in its dispute with the US Agency for Global Media and other government defendants over previously terminated grant funding, pursuant to a Trump administration executive order.
OTF—a nonprofit organization established by Congress and focused on countering internet censorship—showed that the agency’s withholding of funds likely violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the US Constitution, Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in a Friday order granting a preliminary injunction.
The defendants “have not offered any justification for their withholding of …