The Associated Press reports today that U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Obama Administration guidelines that permitted the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Judge Lamberth wrote that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, when it overturned Judge Lamberth’s prior injunction halting the use of federal funds, had interpreted federal law in a way that permitted the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Therefore, Judge Lamberth ruled that he was bound by that interpretation of the law and that the entire lawsuit must be dismissed.

More on the story is available here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iPVGVZyr5PHwHMmFuKRq4eIIeZ0A?docId=6e2d2d08e7a541299ac806ff3827088e

I discuss the litigation in detail, and the policy debate over the funding of embryonic stem cell research, in an article available here:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1747802