January 06, 2026
The First Circuit appeared to push back Tuesday on assertions by the government that new guidance for terminating medical research grants over supposed links to issues like DEI, gender identity and vaccines — along with a partial settlement last week — moot a pair of lawsuits challenging the directives.
July 24, 2025
The Trump administration on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a district court's preliminary injunction so that the National Institutes of Health can resume terminating $783 million in grants, saying the lower court, under a recent high court ruling, lacked jurisdiction to make the government pay the grants.
July 22, 2025
A First Circuit panel refused to hit pause on a Massachusetts federal judge's order voiding cuts by the National Institutes of Health to hundreds of grant programs. Meanwhile, in California, a jury trial kicked off over allegations of unlawful information sharing between menstrual app developer Flo Health Inc. and Meta Platforms.