September 22, 2023
In the term beginning next week, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to return to some of the most hot-button issues concerning civil rights: guns, free speech, race discrimination, and potentially more.
June 20, 2023
A federal judge permanently barred the state of Arkansas from enforcing a law banning certain kinds of medical treatment for teenagers with gender dysphoria, finding Tuesday the statute violated the constitutional rights of transgender people, doctors and parents.
June 23, 2022
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation asked a federal judge to exclude a doctor and a professor from testifying at a trial in the group’s challenge to Arkansas’ ban on certain kinds of medical treatment for teenagers with gender dysphoria, saying those professionals weren’t legitimate experts on health care for transgender young people.
April 06, 2022
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge must turn over 4,500 emails for discovery purposes in a suit seeking to permanently block a state law that bans gender-affirming medical care for young transgender people, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.