A group of 16 Democratic AGs, led by Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell, filed a lawsuit alleging that the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) delays in the review and approval of grant applications and terminations of...more
In just over two months since President Donald Trump assumed office, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), now under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has undergone a profound shift in its...more
An edict issued without warning in February 2025 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), having the effect of slashing funding by the NIH across the board, has been put on a nationwide hold for now by a federal court in...more
Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •AGs and DOJ Submit Revised Final Judgment in Google...more
On March 5, 2025, Judge Angel Kelley, a federal district court judge sitting in Massachusetts, granted a nationwide preliminary injunction which serves to temporarily block the Trump Administration’s attempt to cap the...more
Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: ·Republican AGs Have Beef with Nutritional Standards Report...more
The proposed cuts would place a 15% indirect cost rate on all new and existing grant awards received by research institutions and universities....more
A group of 22 Democratic AGs obtained a temporary restraining order blocking Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (Rate Change Notice), which would reduce to 15 percent all...more
SUMMARY: On February 7, 2025, the Office of the Director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a Notice (Notice No. NOT-OD-25-068) imposing a cap of 15% on the indirect cost rates that can be charged to the...more
On August 4, 2020, a bipartisan coalition of over 30 attorneys general led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry sent a letter request to United States Health and Human...more