( July 31, 2025, 1:57 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — Pursuant to a motion by the federal government, the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed the government’s appeal seeking review of a Rhode Island federal district court grant of a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from implementing or enforcing a March 24 decision that terminated $11 billion in federal financial assistance used by states for public health emergency preparedness and other public health purposes as no longer necessary because the COVID-19 pandemic had ended....