Harvard research funding freeze held unconstitutional retaliation

Date

Sep 3, 2025

Kind

Appropriations

Status

Judicially found non-compliant

Source

cnn.com ↗

Court or forum

Harvard v. HHS, D. Mass., Judge Allison Burroughs

What happened

Hours after Harvard rejected the administration's conditions it lost $2.2bn, later more; Burroughs held in an 84-page order that the administration "used antisemitism as a smokescreen" and vacated all freezes made on or after 2025-04-14.

Publisher

CNN