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Harvard Has No Entitlement to Federal Billions, Federal Lawyer Tells Appeals Court

BOSTON—A federal judge overstepped her authority when she ordered the federal government to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants to Harvard that the Trump administration had terminated, a government lawyer told a panel of appellate judges Monday. "There’s no First Amendment right to money," the Justice Department lawyer, Michael…

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