UC Researchers Likely to Win New Court Order to Get Grant Funds

Researchers at the University of California school system are likely to win a new court injunction barring the Departments of Defense and Transportation and the National Institutes of Health from terminating multi-year research grants, a San Francisco federal judge said at a hearing Thursday.

A new injunction would add to an existing court order from Judge Rita F. Lin that blocked hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research grant cuts from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Environmental Protection Agency

UC researchers’ proposed class action alleges the Trump administration has targeted grants that ...