This was the right decision regardless of any “linguistic jujitsu,” which really began with George W. Bush’s executive order limiting research to about 20 existing cell lines. That make no logical sense. – Ilene
U.S. funding of human embryonic stem-cell studies can continue while a lower court decides whether the government-backed research violates the law, a federal appeals court said.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today reversed a preliminary order that would have blocked the U.S. Health and Human Services Department and the National Institutes of Health from spending government money on researching embryonic stem- cells, known as ESC, until the district court judge rules. The court had put a hold on the order in September.
“The hardship a preliminary injunction would impose on ESC researchers” would be “certain and substantial,” the court said. “Their investment in project planning would be a loss, their expenditures for equipment a waste, and their staffs out of a job.”
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The appeals court found that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their case so the “extraordinary remedy” of a preliminary injunction could not be justified.
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