Administrative complaints filed Thursday seek $10 million each for 13 former cadets who say they were sexually assaulted from the 1980s to recent years.
Housing facilities for refugees at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey will remain open in the interim, the Department of Homeland Security said.
The order from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia marks the first time a court has barred the Air Force from enforcing its mandate for a service member.
Fort McCoy was one of eight military installations across the country that temporarily housed more than 76,000 Afghans who were forced to flee their homeland.
Never before has Texas — or any other state — involuntarily activated so many troops under state active duty authority for such a long-term mission. Nor has it been done so quickly.
By Davis Winkie and James Barragán, The Texas Tribune