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US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2B in research grants


The decision will hinder lawsuits against grant terminations, legal specialists say.

The lower court said in June that the grant cuts made by the Trump administration in relation to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) amounted to racial discrimination. “What the court made clear yesterday is, if your grants get cut, you’re not going to be able to get any effective remedy for it,” says Samuel Bagenstos, who until December was the top lawyer for the NIH’s parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services. The next month, a three-judge appeals-court panel unanimously denied the Trump administration’s request to halt Young’s ruling, noting that the cuts would delay lifesaving research by years, if not decades.

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