Judge Denies Feds’ Motion to Dismiss PETA’s Animal Sepsis Tests Lawsuit

A federal judge denies the government’s request to dismiss PETA’s first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and government officials that alleges that funding sepsis experiments on animals—despite NIH’s acknowledgment that mice and humans don’t experience the same condition—abuses the agency’s discretion and violates their obligation to fund research to improve human health and minimize the use of animals in experiments. PETA is found eligible to sue, and the lawsuit moves forward.