COVID Grant Terminations Case Stayed Pending Court Of Appeals Jurisdiction Ruling

( January 26, 2026, 2:40 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pending the resolution of Climate United Fund v. Citibank, which the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently agreed to rehear en banc, a District of Columbia federal judge stayed a lawsuit brought by a group of municipalities and a labor union against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its acting director alleging that the mass termination of federal grants provided as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic is unlawful....