Home & Sexual Violence
DOJ will not terminate ABA’s home violence coaching grants
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. (Picture 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 provide technical help to attorneys 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 Might, a federal decide granted the affiliation’s request for a preliminary injunction.
The DOJ declined to enchantment the Might 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 studies. The case will stay on hiatus for 2 years except both facet decides to reopen it.
The ABA will obtain $3.2 million in home violence coaching grants via 2027, Reuters additionally studies.
“We’re happy to have defeated makes an attempt to retaliate in opposition to our consumer for its train of its constitutional rights—and to have restored this important funding,” mentioned 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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