The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge had blocked the government’s $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. In a Wednesday filing with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Department of Justice lawyers asked judges to dismiss an appeal it filed last month seeking to reverse a lower court decision. The November ruling — a major victory for UC workers who sued — had stalled the fine and a 27-page settlement document outlining Trump administration demands to push the university ideologically rightward. The settlement proposal called...