In the early months of the Trump administration, federal agencies embarked on their new deregulation drive by delaying several rules finalized in the waning months of President Barack Obama’s term. A year later, that approach has cost the federal government in at least one case.

On July 13, a federal judge in Washington ordered the government pay $100,000 in attorney fees to venture capital advocates who had successfully challenged the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to delay an Obama-era rule allowing foreign entrepreneurs to enter the United States without a visa or green card. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia had granted summary judgment in December to those advocates, in a decision that sided with their argument that DHS violated the Administrative Procedure Act by not taking comments before delaying the rule.