The implementation of the Public Charge rule was delayed as a direct consequence of injunctions that were issued by federal district courts in California, Washington, and New York. Since the enjoining of the public charge rule by those Courts (which prevented the rule from taking effect), two of those three injunctions were overturned by the higher appeals court. In the case of California, the injunction was overturned by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, while in the case

The Southern District of New York has just become the first U.S. Court to prevent the Trump administration from enforcing the "Public Charge Rule", which had been scheduled to take effect on Tuesday October 15, 2019. The New York litigation is one of several that are pending in various courts across the country. One of the arguments put forward by attorneys in the New York litigation was that the new rule targeted minorities and would cause them to suffer irreparable harm. Th