Supreme Court ruled that lawsuits by researchers seeking to reinstate nearly $2 billion in NIH grants should have been filed in a contracts-specialized court rather than the original district court. The Court nonetheless allowed the district court to review NIH guidelines and left intact a lower-court order deeming those guidelines illegal and unusable. The ruling permits the Trump administration to proceed with DEI-related grant terminations and places a heavy burden on researchers to challenge cuts in a different court, making effective remedies unlikely. The decision jeopardizes other funding-restoration suits against agencies such as the National Science Foundation and undermines researchers' trust and certainty.
In a scientific sense, this is a total loss.
The trust and certainty that is so critical to successfully conduct research has been completely obliterated by this ruling.
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,
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