Court Rejects California Stem Cell Research Challenge
A Hayward judge ruled Friday that California’s $3 billion stem cell initiative does not violate state law, a decision that, if upheld on appeal, would free up funds for the controversial research program that have been on hold for more than a year. “In passing Proposition 71, voters made a decision to put California in the vanguard of a scientific movement that holds tremendous promise for advancing public health.”
It was stalled by two legal challenges, later consolidated, that claimed the initiative had entrusted billions in taxpayer money to an independent grant-making agency riddled with conflicts of interest and free of meaningful control by elected state officials.
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