Overview

• Harvard’s court filing argues the abrupt freeze violated the Administrative Procedure Act and its First Amendment rights.
• Internal documents cited by Harvard show the White House directly instructed agencies to cancel or pause research grants without individual review.
• The university received 957 orders to freeze funding across key areas since mid-April, including pediatric HIV studies, biological threat assessments and dark energy research.
• Judge Allison Burroughs has scheduled a July 21 hearing on Harvard’s motion for summary judgment to decide the dispute without a full trial.
• The Trump administration also moved to block Harvard from enrolling international students and opened multiple probes into its diversity, admissions and foreign affiliations.