News & Insights

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 [...]

Grantees Must File Separate Cases in U.S. District Court and the Court of Federal Claims The new Administration has rolled out executive orders directing federal agencies to review and terminate grants deemed [...]

On August 12, 2025, the court in State of New York, et al., v. USDOJ, et al., 25-cv-00345 (D. R.I.), entered an updated “Stipulation and Joint Proposal for Briefing Schedule” stating that [...]

“Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking” Gives Agency Heads More Control Over Federal Grant Review and Provides for Uniform Guidance Revisions A new Executive Order (EO) issued Thursday, August 7 continues—and expands upon—the [...]