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In a victory for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and the state coalitions, a federal court in Rhode Island today issued a preliminary order blocking the Trump-Vance administration from enforcing many of the new unlawful restrictions on grants from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women.

Rhode Island District Judge Melissa R. DuBose has granted a request to temporarily block the Trump-Vance administration from adding harmful new restrictions on federal grant programs administered by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

New Certification Requirements Threaten Critical Services for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors, LGBTQI+ Youth, and Unhoused Communities

Group asks court to strike down grant restrictions on various legal grounds

The ACLU of Rhode Island today announced the favorable settlement of a federal lawsuit that challenged, as a violation of the First Amendment

Attorneys for the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV) and a nationwide group of 16 other state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions have asked a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction against a host of unlawful grant restrictions

A nationwide group of 17 state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions, led by the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV), filed a lawsuit today seeking to stop the Trump administration from imposing unlawful restrictions on grants

The lawsuit argues that RIDOC has refused to accommodate an array of religious practices that Native Americans are routinely allowed to practice in federal and state prisons across the country.

Four arts and theater organizations filed an amended complaint today in federal court in Rhode Island in their First Amendment lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).