April 23, 2024
The national debate over transgender rights reached the U.S. Supreme Court and surfaced in three circuit courts over the last week as judges take up fiercely litigated questions on gender-affirming care and participation in sports.
April 11, 2024
An en banc panel of the Eighth Circuit weighing whether to revive an Arkansas state law that banned gender-affirming care for children and teens heard oral arguments Thursday, as Arkansas officials sought to demonstrate that the law does not unconstitutionally discriminate based on sex.
March 29, 2024
A defense contractor will square off with the government over pension obligations, workers at an auto parts retailer and Georgetown University staffers will look to revive suits claiming their retirement savings were mismanaged, and a ban on gender-affirming care for minors will get an en banc review. Here are five argument sessions that should be on benefits attorneys' radar in April.
December 19, 2023
A coalition of pediatrician groups has told the Eighth Circuit that Arkansas lawmakers ignored medical evidence that gender dysphoria is a clinical condition for which youths can and should be treated.
December 15, 2023
The Eighth Circuit should affirm a lower court decision that found an Arkansas law banning gender transition care for young transgender people is unconstitutional, the federal government told the appeals court Friday.
December 14, 2023
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 19 other attorneys general on Thursday asked the Eighth Circuit to affirm a federal judge's ruling that overturned a ban on access to gender-affirming care in Arkansas.
December 08, 2023
Four Arkansas youths with gender dysphoria and their parents have urged the Eighth Circuit to affirm their access to gender-affirming medical care, arguing that the lower court correctly found Arkansas' new law banning the treatment for transgender youth to be unconstitutional.