Two years later, he issued a nationwide injunction to halt the deportation of foreign children traveling without guardians after the Immigration and Naturalization Service deported a 14-year-old boy who was a legal resident.
He added that Federal courts would not grant damages to people in all states on the basis of prosecution by one state, but it was possible that a nationwide injunction might be granted.
The Administration acted hours after a Federal district judge in Boston issued a nationwide injunction permanently prohibiting enforcement of the restriction.
Judge Patterson's ruling, a preliminary nationwide injunction against the Helms Amendment, prevented enforcement of the statute.
Judge Hamilton declined, however, to issue a broader nationwide injunction, in deference, she said, to the Nebraska and New York courts.
At the same time, however, Judge Collins sided with the government in rejecting some of the plaintiffs' arguments, and she declined to grant a nationwide injunction against the Justice Department.
The Court issued a permanent nationwide injunction against the manufacturing, promoting, selling, leasing, distributing, shipping, delivering, or using in any way this particular "Toftness Radiation Detector".
The Administration wanted to prevent federally financed family planning clinics from helping women obtain abortions, and the judge issued a nationwide injunction against the new policy.
The newspapers won a nationwide injunction against the policy from Federal District Court in Newark.
The district court also issued a nationwide injunction against further disruptive protests.