Education

On May 25, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordered the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [...]

On April 23, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a long-awaited change to federal marijuana policy that could have major impacts for federally funded health centers seeking to prescribe medical marijuana and [...]

Feldesman Partners Mindy B. Pava and Edward T. Waters will present four sessions at the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) Financial Research Administration (FRA) Conference and Pre-Award Research Administration (PRA) [...]

On November 18, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released updates to its adoption of Federal grant regulations in the Uniform Guidance at 2 C.F.R. Part 300. As [...]

Injunctions Remain in Effect Until Appellate Courts Rule On November 7, 2025, the federal government filed notices of appeal in two separate lawsuits challenging its reinterpretation of what constitutes a “Federal public [...]

Feldesman Partner Phillip A. Escoriaza will present on the shifting federal grants landscape at the Grant Professionals Association GrantSummit 2025, taking place October 29 to November 1 in Baltimore, Maryland.  Mr. Escoriaza’s [...]

Feldesman Partner Mindy Pava will deliver key legal insights with the scientific research community during two sessions at the upcoming 2025 Society of Research Administrations International (SRAI) Annual Meeting.  Ms. Pava will [...]

On September 11, 2025, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington preliminarily stopped the administration’s reinterpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (“PRWORA”) [...]

On September 10, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island in State of New York, et al., v. USDOJ, et al., 25-cv-00345 (D.R.I.), granted the States’ Motion [...]

Late last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted without any fanfare the promised revision to the HHS Grants Policy Statement (GPS), effective October 1, 2025.  This updated [...]