[UPDATE] Judge orders 30 days' written notice before any change to the Kennedy Center, including demolition, but refuses an emergency hearing on this week's closure

The order. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled Thursday, Sept. 17 that the government must give 30 days' written notice before making any change to the Kennedy Center "including but not limited to any 'demolition'" of the main building. The refusal. He turned down a separate request from Beatty for an emergency hearing on the board's vote to close the venue, which shut its doors Tuesday, Sept. 15. What it buys. The order does not stop the closure. Nothing structural can happen to the building without a month's warning filed in court — Beatty's lawyers get a window to challenge the closure before any demolition could begin. What next. The 30-day clock only starts if the administration files notice. No filing has been made, and no hearing date is set.