Harvard v. Department of Health and Human Services

President and Fellows of Harvard College v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al.
CourtUnited States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Full case name President and Fellows of Harvard College v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., United States Department of Justice, Pamela J. Bondi, United States Department of Education, Linda McMahon, United States General Services Administration, Stephen Ehikian, United States Department of Energy, Christopher A. Wright, United States National Science Foundation, Sethuraman Panchanathan, United States Department of Defense, Peter B. Hegseth, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Janet E. Petro
StartedApril 21, 2025
Citation1:25-cv-11048
Court membership
Judge sittingAllison Burroughs

President and Fellows of Harvard College v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al. is a lawsuit filed in April 2025 by the Harvard Corporation against the Trump administration over the suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding. On September 3, Burroughs ruled in favor of Harvard, finding the government had violated its free speech rights and used allegations of antisemitism as a "smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities".