UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, ET AL.

  1. April 14, 2017

    Feds Drop North Carolina Bathroom Law Challenge

    The United States and North Carolina have agreed to end their dispute over the state's controversial transgender bathroom law, in light of a repeal bill passed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper late last month, according to a motion filed in federal court on Friday.

  2. November 15, 2016

    Feds Slam NC's Bid For Transgender Witnesses' Medical Info

    The U.S. Department of Justice urged a North Carolina federal court Monday to not allow the state to obtain transgender witnesses' medical and health records, information that potentially endangers the individuals' privacy rights, because they are not relevant to the legality of the state's now infamous bathroom law.

  3. September 06, 2016

    NC Bathroom Bill Trial Pushed From November To May

    Two lawsuits over North Carolina’s law requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms that match their birth sex won’t go to trial until May 2017, a federal magistrate judge said Tuesday after both sides sought to delay the trial for reasons including pending appeals and discovery burdens.

  4. August 23, 2016

    Feds Urge Judge To Nix Stay In NC Trans Bathroom Battle

    The federal government told a North Carolina federal court on Monday that it shouldn't wait until the U.S .Supreme Court decides whether to take on a transgender rights case from Virginia before deciding whether North Carolina's H.B. 2 is constitutional, as the Virginia case is still binding Fourth Circuit precedent.

  5. August 15, 2016

    UNC Wants Stay In Bathroom Case Pending High Court Ruling

    The University of North Carolina on Friday asked a federal judge to pause the federal government's and the American Civil Liberties Union's suits challenging a law that requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a related Virginia case.

  6. August 12, 2016

    UNC Can't Duck Transgender Bathroom Lawsuit, Feds Say

    The University of North Carolina can't escape the high-stakes suit over the state's law requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday, adding that the school has sent mixed messages as to what its policy really is.

  7. July 29, 2016

    UNC Says It's Wrongly Targeted In Transgender Bathroom Suit

    The University of North Carolina said Friday it had been unnecessarily dragged into a high-stakes political fight over a state law that prevents transgender people from using public bathrooms that do not correspond with their birth gender.

  8. July 19, 2016

    UNC Says It Shouldn't Be Involved In Feds' Bathroom Suit

    The University of North Carolina on Monday asked to be dismissed from the federal litigation over the state's controversial law banning transgender people from using public bathrooms of their choice, saying that there's no reason for the school to be involved.

  9. July 06, 2016

    Feds Urge Court To Block NC Transgender Bathroom Law

    The U.S. government has asked a North Carolina federal court to block the state's controversial law banning transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice in public facilities, arguing the Fourth Circuit has already indicated in another ruling that it's likely to find the law discriminatory.

  10. June 29, 2016

    NC Privacy Group Wants In On Bathroom Law Fight

    A nonprofit that includes people who have been sexually abused by opposite-sex perpetrators asked Tuesday to participate in the U.S.' lawsuit challenging North Carolina's now-infamous transgender bathroom law, to protect the constitutional right to bodily privacy of the group's members.