A Federal judge has still to give its jurisdiction over the funding of embryonic stem cell researches by NIH that has been ceased by a ruling of federal court.

The funding into stem cell researches and the carryon of such studies were prohibited by the verdict of federal court; which the federal judge may relieve temporarily and allow NIH to keep financing and continue the researches.

On Friday, the claimants in the case, James L. Sherley and Theresa Deisher stated that the ban imposed by the court didn’t apply to research approved under the Bush administration’s stem cell guidelines in 2001 and it nullifies the Dickey-Wicker amendment, which bars funding of a research that damages human embryo. They filed the lawsuit against Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health.

There is likelihood that Royce C. Lamberth, a Federal judge may lift the ban for sometime early this week.

There are no details about who hired Sherley and Deisher and how the financing is being provided to the legal action.

As per the court’s filings, lawyers from three distinct organizations including the law firm of Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher, Alliance Defense Fund and Human Life Advocates are supporting Sherley and Deisher.

The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, a stem cell advocacy group said, “The lack of a stay on the preliminary injunction will effectuate a dramatic change and irreparably damage one of NIH’s most important research programs”.