Georgia has joined other states in a lawsuit against the recent federal directive about transgender students in public bathrooms and locker rooms. The lawsuit announced Wednesday also includes Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Maine, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.. The challenge comes in response to a federal “guidance” to U.S. schools this month to let transgender …
Tennessee is one of 11 states that filed federal suit Wednesday against the Obama administration over recent guidance issued regarding which bathrooms transgender students may use. The states filing suit argue the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education are usurping local control and trying to create a national social experiment by telling districts to allow transgender …
Texas joined by 10 other states, filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop a federal directive instructing school districts to let transgender students use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday. Calling the Obama administration directive “outside the bounds of the …
Utah has now joined nine other states in a lawsuit against the White House over its new transgender directive in schools. Nine other states and three individual school districts have joined the federal lawsuit, according to the lawsuit , which was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of …
Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas announced Wednesday that they have joined nine other states in a federal lawsuit to challenge President Obama’s mandate requiring all public K-12 schools to open up boys’ and girls’ locker rooms and restrooms to students of the opposite sex, based on student perceptions of their “gender identity.” …
Texas and 10 other states are suing the Obama administration over its directive to U.S. public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. (AP) Eleven states and state officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Obama administration over federal guidance directing schools to allow transgender students to use restrooms and …
A federal lawsuit brought by states against the Obama administration marks the first major court test of its new policy that transgender students should be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice. On one level, the case is about whether civil rights laws that Congress enacted decades ago envisioned such …
A federal judge has refused to free Dover Area School District from a lawsuit filed by a former female student who for years was sexually abused by her music teacher. That teacher, Matthew Puterbaugh, is also a defendant in the U.S. Middle District Court suit. He is serving a sentence of 15 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography, plus a 5- to 10-year state prison term for …
The federal judge demanding Volkswagen AG fix 480,000 diesel-cheating vehicles in the U.S. or get them off the road said the automaker is on pace to meet next month’s deadline to reach a deal with car owners. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco reiterated on Tuesday that buybacks, cash compensation for consumers and a fund to address damages from the excess emissions and future …
A meeting set for Monday in a federal courtroom will try to settle a lawsuit filed by two young women against Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and sex offender. Epstein admitted to bringing teens to his Palm Beach mansion and paying them to give him sexually charged massages. In their lawsuit, the two women accused federal officials of giving Epstein a “sweetheart deal,” allowing …