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Nebraska to Drop Lawsuit Over Transgender Bathroom Policy

Nebraska has asked to drop a 10-state lawsuit it led challenging the Obama administration’s guidance on locker room and bathroom use by transgender students. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the Nebraska attorney general’s office filed the request in a motion Thursday.


WorleyParsons $50m Class Action to Proceed

WorleyParsons CEO Andrew Wood slashed earnings guidance unexpectedly in 2013. Christopher Pearce WorleyParsons’ attempt to stop a $50 million class action lawsuit alleging the engineering group breached continuous disclosure obligations in 2013 has failed, with the Federal Court ordering the case to continue. Justice Foster dismissed WorleyParsons’ interlocutory application on January to halt …


NC Court Rejects Magistrates’ Gay Marriage Lawsuit :: WRAL.com

North Carolina’s Court of Appeals has rejected two former magistrates’ claim that their rights were violated by state guidance that they could lose their jobs if they refused to perform gay marriages. Their lawsuit cited late 2014 guidance memos from the Administrative Office of the Courts. The appeals court ruled Tuesday that Gilbert Breedlove and Thomas Holland lacked standing …


Odwalla Evaporated Cane Juice Lawsuit Back in Play

A class action lawsuit accusing Coca-Cola subsidiary Odwalla of misleading consumers by using the term ‘evaporated cane juice’ (ECJ) on labels is now back in play in the wake of the FDA’s finalized guidance – and is likely to be joined by scores of others, predict attorneys. The case* – which was filed in 2013 in California and stayed (put on ice) in 2014 after the FDA said it would conduct a …


Georgia Joins Lawsuit Over Transgender Students and Bathrooms

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 …


Tenn. Joins Lawsuit Over Federal Transgender Directive

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 …


A Big Legal Question Behind the Texas Transgender Lawsuit

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 …