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Russell Korobkin: Stem cell shock #2: The preliminary injunction

By Alliance Alert

Russell Korobkin writing at The Volokh Conspiracy: "In a [post yesterday], I described why I think Judge Royce Lamberth?s decision on Monday that the Dickey-Wicker Amendment prohibits the federal government from funding human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research is wrong on the merits. Technically, however, the decision was not a ruling on the merits. Lamberth actually granted the plaintiffs? motion for a preliminary injunction. Because the issue is a pure question of statutory interpretation, and because the opinion in no way suggested that it was tentative in nature, it seems almost certain that Lamberth will eventually replace the preliminary injunction with a permanent one. But the government is entitled to another day in court before this can happen."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).