Texas book ban law is likely unconstitutional, appeals court rules
The Texas READER Act's restrictions on book vendors' sales to schools can't be enforced while a lawsuit continues, the Fifth Circuit ruled.
January 17, 2024
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The Texas READER Act's restrictions on book vendors' sales to schools can't be enforced while a lawsuit continues, the Fifth Circuit ruled.
Florida cannot enforce the ban on drag shows while the state appeals an earlier decision by a federal judge who ruled the ban unconstitutional.
The Chino Valley district was the first in the state to adopt such a policy, for which it was sued by California's attorney general.
She issued a temporary injunction that lasts until after she’s had an opportunity to hear some arguments in the case.
The preliminary injunction affects Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The ACLU filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the Pentagon from purging books and culture.
The ruling, which only lifts a preliminary injunction, is counter to what all lower courts have said about the issue.
A state district court granted a preliminary injunction blocking prohibitions on changes on the gender markers on driver's licenses and birth certificates.
After an antigay clerk dug in her heels, a U.S. district judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering Rowan County, Ky., to stop denying marriage licenses to couples.
The students can use the restrooms and locker rooms for their gender identity while their lawsuits proceed, an appeals court has ruled.
A judge has blocked a law that would have made it harder for trans residents to change the gender on their birth certificates, but the state still hasn't changed the process.
The same judge has blocked restrictions affecting trans youth.
The judges may reconsider if the military takes action against trans service members.
The law had been on hold until the judge could decide whether to block it while a suit against it is heard.
“This litigation is not about a medical condition. A medical condition has not given its country decades of military service…People have. Transgender people,” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said.
"H.B. 2 is not merely a solution to a non-existent problem; it is state-sanctioned discrimination," writes the Justice Department.
State officials had previously said they would not comply with a court injunction making the changes to birth certificates easier for transgender residents.
An injunction on the ban was upheld last week, but a new order from a Washington, D.C., federal court has put it in back in motion.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued its ruling Thursday, but the lawyers representing trans youth and families note that the fight is not over.