U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams' injunction formalized a temporary halt she had ordered two weeks ago as witnesses continued to testify in a multiday hearing to determine whether construction should end until the ultimate resolution of the case.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction halting further expansion of an immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades.

The state of Florida filed a notice of appeal of a federal judge’s preliminary injunction that would close within 60 days the state’s immigrant detention center in the Everglades known