Girl Gets Chance at Lung Transplant In a last-ditch effort to save its 10-year-old daughter who is dying of cystic fibrosis, a Pennsylvania family filed an emergency motion in federal court today to sidestep a controversial transplant rule that was preventing the girl from getting new lungs. And the family won. The Murnaghan family of Newtown Square, Pa., had been fighting a little-known organ transplant policy that had been effectively pushing its daughter Sarah to the bottom of the adult transplant waiting list because it mandates that adult lungs be offered to all adult patients before they can be offered to someone younger than 12 years old. The family filed an emergency motion on Wednesday to prevent Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius from enforcing the policy. Sebelius said Tuesday that she would not make an exception for Sarah. On Wednesday afternoon, Federal Judge Michael Baylson ordered Sebelius to stop enforcing the under-12 rule for Sarah "so that she can be considered for receipt of donated lungs from adults based on the medical severity of her condition as compared to the medical severity of persons over 12 in the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network system." The order is effective immediately and will remain in effect unless the court rules otherwise at a preliminary injunction hearing on June 14. The #Sign4Sarah hashtag on Twitter erupted in celebratory tweets shortly after the news broke. Calls and emails from ABCNews.com to Sarah's family and spokespeople were not immediately returned. "Finally, we have some positive news for Sarah and her family," U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R.-Pa., said in a statement. I applaud today's ruling and am grateful to Judge Baylson for quickly issuing his decision on such an important matter. Toomey had written a letter to Sebelius asking her to step in to save Sarah last week. Law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP wrote a letter to Sebelius on Monday calling the policy "unfair, arbitrary and capricious" and saying that Sebelius' failure to make an exception was a violation of Sarah's constitutional rights to "due process" and "equal protection," according to a family statement. "Sarah is being left to die," Sarah's father, Fran Murnaghan, told ABC News on Sunday. So far, it has gathered about 343,000 signatures. Doshi said he believes children under 12 years old should be considered with the adult patients and awarded organs based on the severity of their conditions. One of his 6-year-old patients got a partial lung donation from her mother several years ago in a last-ditch effort to save her life.