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A federal judge in Washington has joined several of his counterparts across the country in ruling against the federal government’s executive order that restricts citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.

In the suit, which was filed by the State of Washington earlier in the week, officials from Expedia and Amazon filed formal legal declarations saying that their employees are directly affected by the President Donald Trump’s policy. Expedia further explained that its business interests would be negatively impacted if the executive order was allowed to stand.

On Friday afternoon, US District Judge James L. Robart, who was nominated to the court by President George W. Bush in 2003, ruled against the government and granted a temporary restraining order. This restraining order can still be overturned or altered later. A federal judge in Los Angeles granted a similar restraining order earlier in the week.