This is the case that involves Catherine Herridge, who reported for Fox News in 2017 that Chen, a naturalized US citizen, and her VA technology school had been under FBI investigation for suspected ties to Chinese government, feeding information about US military personnel to the Chinese, and falsifying her immigration records related to her past service in the Chinese Army.
The lawsuit was assigned to Judge Chris Cooper, an Obama appointee, husband to the former chief of staff for Eric Holder. Cooper and Amy Jeffries were married at a ceremony officiated by current AG Merrick Garland.
The backdrop to this is stunning. The DOJ/FBI routinely leak sensitive information to the media to try to destroy people on the Right--especially anyone tied to Donald Trump, think Carter Page--but now a Dem judge is helping a suspected Chinese spy sue US govt agencies and a veteran investigative reporter. (Btw one of Cooper's cohorts on the DC bench tossed Page's lawsuit against the same agencies.)