If Judge Burroughs sides with the federal government, past restraining orders will be null, putting international students at Harvard in a difficult situation, according to Grode.

Judge Allison Burroughs’s ruling, which extends her pause until June 23, builds on a decision made at the end of May after Harvard requested an emergency hearing when the Department of Homeland Secur...

If they succeed, it could affect about 7,000 international scholars and potentially deliver a disabling blow to the campus’s finances, curriculum and identity.