TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 24, 2025

The American Bar Association (ABA) will receive $3.2 million in domestic violence training grants through 2027, after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to appeal a May ruling blocking cancellation of funding. After the department chose not to appeal, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper administratively closed the ABA’s lawsuit, putting the case on hiatus for two years. According to Reuters, the DOJ and the ABA released a joint status report that either party could reopen the case “if circumstances warrant.” Cooper had ruled in May that the ABA was entitled to the full amount of grants it had been awarded to train lawyers to represent victims of domestic and sexual violence.