 On January 26, 1998, U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Sporkin granted McVeigh a preliminary injunction barring the Navy from discharging him.He wrote that the central issue was whether the Navy complied with its own DADT policy and, by extension, "whether there is really a place for gay officers in the military under the new policy".He sometimes referred to DADT by its longer name–"Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue"–as he questioned the Navy's pursuit of information about McVeigh.