judge colleen kollar-kotelly granted the plaintiffs' preliminary injunction on october 30, 2017. in the ruling, judge kollar-kotelly noted the defendants' motion to dismiss the case was "perhaps compelling in the abstract, [but] wither away under scrutiny." the ruling effectively reinstated the policies established prior to president trump's tweets announcing the ban, namely the retention and accession policies for transgender personnel that were effective on june 30, 2017. however, the court denied a preliminary injunction against the ban on government-funded sex reassignment surgery for service members "because no plaintiff has demonstrated that they are substantially likely to be impacted by this directive."