Judge Halts University of California Research Grant Cuts (1)

University of California researchers succeeded in their bid to temporarily pause hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding cuts while their class action over the lost grants proceeds.

Judge Rita F. Lin, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, granted the researchers’ request for a preliminary injunction and provisional status for two overlapping classes of UC researchers Monday, ruling that terminating grants for research involving blacklisted topics like “diversity” and “equity” violates the First Amendment “and runs contrary to Congress’s specific directives to support research concerning—and foster greater involvement in the sciences of—underrepresented groups.”

“Although ...