Harvard WINS BIG the first round on this one…..
Her ruling, which is likely to be appealed, vacated the government’s funding freeze and barred it from using similar reasoning to block grants to Harvard in the future.
The government’s actions had terminated nearly a thousand federal grants at Harvard, threatening cancer research and innovations in multiple fields such as quantum computing and efforts to lessen the consequences of battlefield injuries. The Trump administration had said its actions were necessary to compel the university to do more to combat antisemitism.
Burroughs also granted Harvard’s request for summary judgment on civil rights law, ruling that the administration had not followed the requirements of Title VI, which bars discrimination on the basis of race or national origin, before terminating the research grants. She also found that the administration had violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which sets out rules for how the government makes decisions….