On June 3, 2025, the Trump Administration announced that it rescinded the Biden Administration’s guidance issued on July 11, 2022. The Biden Administration’s guidance advises hospital providers that, under the federal...more
6/5/2025
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In a 60-page decision issued on March 20, 2025, Judge Lynn Winmill, a Federal District Judge for the District of Idaho, granted a preliminary injunction that enjoins Attorney General Raúl Labrador and his officers, employees,...more
4/3/2025
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As Justice Kennedy remarked in the landmark decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act: “The Constitution’s guarantee of equality ‘must at the very least mean that a bare [governmental] desire to harm a politically...more
On January 28, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14187, directed at limiting gender-affirming care provided to children and teenagers under the age of nineteen, alerting that the federal government “will not fund,...more
2/17/2025
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Last week, the Kansas Supreme Court issued two decisions striking down a series of state anti-abortion laws passed by the Kansas Legislature. The first case challenged S.B. 95, a bill enacted by the Legislature in 2015...more