Allen v. National Institutes of Health

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, Chief Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case involves a dispute over whether Defendant National Institutes of Health *21(“NIH”) should be permitted to fund the new National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (“BioLab”) at the Boston University Medical Center (“BUMC”) in Boston’s South End and Roxbury neighborhoods. If approved, the facility will house Biosafety Level-3 (“BSL-3”) and Biosafety Level-4 (“BSL-4”) laboratories designed to research extremely dangerous pathogens, such as the Ebola virus, for biodefense purposes. Plaintiffs Klare Allen, Melvin King, Joyce…