happened: the First Circuit granted it.
Now, to be clear about what this ruling is and isn’t. The appellate court hasn’t weighed in on the merits of the underlying case. What they found was that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that they themselves had suffered irreparable harm — a basic legal requirement for a preliminary injunction. The organizations suing the administration could only point to alleged harms suffered by their members, and even then, only one member’s specific grievances made it into their declarations. That’s not irreparable harm. That’s a legal theory in search of a plaintiff.
