New Delhi, June 13 -- The cage is going up on the South Lawn after all. A federal judge in Washington refused on Friday to halt the UFC fight night that President Donald Trump has planned for the White House this weekend, clearing the last legal obstacle between the mixed martial arts promotion and a card it has already spent more than 60 million dollars to stage on the most famous lawn in the country.

United States District Judge Amit Mehta denied a request for an emergency order that would have stopped construction and forced the event off the grounds. He found that the residents and advocacy group behind the challenge had not shown they were likely to have standing to sue, and had not shown the kind of irreparable harm that an emergen...