In March 2017, U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang issued a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump's revised "travel ban," the March 2017 executive order that suspended travel for 90 days from six majority-Muslim countries (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) and paused the entry of asylum seekers for 120 days.
March 01, 2017
high
temporal
Federal-court injunction and description of the executive order's provisions.
In early 2017, U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang issued a preliminary injunction blocking efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), concluding in a written opinion that the actions likely violated the U.S. Constitution in multiple ways, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit later set aside that injunction on appeal.
January 31, 2017
high
temporal
Federal-court preliminary injunction concerning organizational changes to a federal agency and subsequent appellate disposition.
Theodore D. Chuang was appointed as a U.S. District Judge to the federal bench in Greenbelt, Maryland in 2014.
January 01, 2014
high
temporal
Biographical/judicial appointment.