Research Grant Indirect Cost Cap
8 proceedings tracked · Active
NIH and NSF directives in early 2025 imposed caps on indirect-cost recovery rates for university research grants, immediately imperiling billions in federal research funding. Major research universities, the Association of American Universities, and state attorneys general filed suit arguing the caps violated negotiated grant agreements, the APA's notice-and-comment requirements, and the statutory framework governing federal-university research partnerships. Separately, Harvard and Columbia faced targeted grant suspensions tied to campus protest policies and international-student enrollment decisions.
Research Grant Indirect Cost Cap
Case No. 1:25-cv-10338
D. Mass. lead indirect-cost-cap challenge before Judge Kelley, resulting in a preliminary injunction blocking the NIH directive; reached a decided disposition on the APA claims.
Research Grant Indirect Cost Cap
Case No. 1:25-cv-10340
Companion D. Mass. indirect-cost-cap challenge by state attorneys general, consolidated with the lead case; reached a decided disposition blocking the NIH directive.
Research Grant Indirect Cost Cap
Case No. 1:25-cv-10346
Third simultaneous D. Mass. indirect-cost-cap filing by a coalition of research universities; reached a decided disposition as part of the consolidated First Circuit proceeding.
Research Grant Indirect Cost Cap
Case No. 1:25-cv-02429
Harvard targeted grant-suspension challenge in D. Mass. raising First Amendment and unconstitutional-conditions claims against the administration's campus-policy-linked funding freeze.
Research Grant Indirect Cost Cap
Case No. 1:25-cv-10910
Second Harvard funding challenge asserting additional grant suspensions tied to the university's international-student enrollment and DEI policies violated the Spending Clause.
Research Grant Indirect Cost Cap
Case No. 1:25-cv-10912
Harvard research-grant challenge raising the unconstitutional-conditions doctrine against federally imposed requirements conditioning research funding on campus speech policies.
Research Grant Indirect Cost Cap
Case No. 1:25-cv-11048
Active D. Mass. proceeding raising NSF indirect-cost-cap claims and supplemental Columbia University targeted-suspension issues not resolved by the earlier consolidated cases.
Research Grant Indirect Cost Cap
Case No. 1:25-cv-04452
Columbia University S.D.N.Y. targeted grant-suspension challenge raising First Amendment and APA claims parallel to Harvard's D. Mass. proceedings; reached a decided disposition.