After winning a preliminary injunction reversing the U.S. government’s sudden and indiscriminate termination of hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants, plaintiffs in the UC researcher class action litigation have won another court victory via yesterday’s federal district court Order finding that the government’s subsequent “suspensions” of the same research contracts in an attempt to sidestep the Court’s earlier ruling against it were indistinguishable from terminations, and that the grants were to be immediately REINSTATED. This is a tremendous victory for the public good and the continuation of foundational scientific research in California’s university system.
Congratulations to the valiant and unceasing efforts of the researchers headlining the litigation and the organizations, individuals and law firms representing them in federal court, including Farella Braun + Martel, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, and Berkeley Law Professor Claudia Polsky.
The case is Thakur, et al. v. Trump, No. 25-cv-04737-RFL (N.D. Cal.). The Order can be viewed online.
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