Universities Win Order Voiding Agency’s 15% Research Cost Cap

Brown and Cornell universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and several other US schools won a federal court order striking down a National Science Foundation cap on indirect cost rates for government-funded research.

Judge Indira Talwani struck down the cap on Friday, finding it “arbitrary, capricious and contrary to the law,” granting summary judgment to the suing schools plus the Association of American Universities, and denying that relief to the government.