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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 [...]

Increased Competition Thresholds Effective October 1, 2025 This has been a whirlwind of a year in changes in grants, and now, with the beginning of the new federal fiscal year, it is [...]

Federal funding is set to lapse with the expiration of the Fiscal Year 2025 Continuing Resolution at the end of September. This means that, absent new funding legislation, a government shutdown could [...]

On Friday, September 12, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an unpublished decision upholding a Mississippi law that protects 340B contract pharmacy arrangements. The ruling came in [...]

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 [...]

In recent months, the Administration has been adding a new condition to Federal awards that ties assurances that grantees comply with long-standing Federal antidiscrimination laws to a requirement that grantees refrain from [...]