A Texas federal judge issued a preliminary injunction halting the Obama administration’s proposed regulatory revisions that would have doubled for most employees the salary threshold for overtime pay.

U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas, who presides in Sherman, Texas, issued his memorandum and order barring the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) from implementing and enforcing its proposed new overtime rules, which were scheduled to become effective Dec. 1.