Yet, several legal analysts predict the university will prevail in court before any of those claims are even resolved, based on a simple matter: the government’s failure to follow procedural requirements set by Congress before cutting grants. Those include the need for investigations, a determination of findings, and an opportunity for a school to show it is taking voluntary steps to comply with the law. The lawsuit Harvard University filed last week alleging the Trump administration unlawfully froze more than $2 billion in federal funding to the school after it refused to give the government control over academic decisions raises...