On Thursday the Supreme Court issued a ruling that, for the time being, relieves the National Institutes of Health from an obligation to continue paying hundreds of millions of dollars in grants that the agency had stopped funding. The Court simultaneously left intact a lower-court judgment that invalidated NIH memoranda which had implemented administration policies. The effect creates a split outcome: funding interruptions may persist while policy-enforcement memos remain void. The case has been remanded to lower courts for further proceedings, where litigation over grant payments and the validity of the memos will continue.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court decided that, at least temporarily, the National Institute of Health does not need to continue paying hundreds of millions in grants it stopped funding.
But the court also left in place a lower court ruling that voided NIH memos that enforced the administration's policies. The matter now plays out in the lower courts.
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