This page will be updated regularly to provide new information as it becomes available regarding the AAU-ACE-APLU legal action contesting the Department of Defense cutting reimbursement rates to 15%. Stay tuned.
June 17, 2025 Update: U.S. Judge Brian E. Murphy issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) that covers all institutions in all states nationwide in the case filed by AAU, APLU, ACE, and 12 impacted higher education institutions against the U.S. Department of Defense. The judge’s order prevents the administration "....implementing, instituting, maintaining, or giving effect to the immediately effective portions of the Rate Cap Policy, i.e., those portions implementing a 15% cap for all awards issued on or after June 12, 2025, including but not limited to rejecting or treating adversely proposals for DOD funding submitted at universities’ negotiated rates rather than the 15% rate."