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“Supreme Court Inclined to Uphold TennesseeLaw on Transgender Care; The justices heard arguments on Wednesday over whether Tennessee can ban some medical treatments for transgender youth; More than 20 other states have similar laws”: Adam Liptak and Emily Bazelon of The New York Times have this report.
A US appeals court on Thursday dismissed a challenge to a Tennesseelaw that restricts drag performances, reversing a lower court’s decision that blocked the law from taking full effect. The only thing that is clear about this law is that it’s firmly rooted in hate and defies the will of the majority of Tennesseans.
A federal judge in Tennessee on Friday temporarily blocked a controversial law that would have imposed strict limits on drag performances in the state. The post Federal judge temporarily blocks Tennesseelaw restricting drag performances appeared first on JURIST - News. Judge Thomas L. The pause is subject to extension.
A Tennessee state court ruled that a Republican-drawn map for the state’s Senate seats violated the Tennessee Constitution. The Tennessee Constitution states that “a county having more than one senatorial district, the district shall be numbered consecutively.”
A Tennessee city settled with the ACLU on Wednesday, agreeing to pay $500,000 for the harm caused by its anti-drag ordinance and policy. ” The state has seen several challenges to LGBTQ+ rights in the past year, including a law that protects public school employees’ choice to not use a student’s preferred pronouns.
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Desmond sent a letter to event organizers, local politicians, local law enforcement and owners of facilities booked for use by the festival questioning whether Blount County Pride would violate the AEA. The post US federal judge sides with Tennessee Pride festival in challenge to drag ban appeared first on JURIST - News.
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” The defendants have been accused of violating antitrust laws, including the Sherman and Clayton Acts, that prohibit anti-competitive business practices and unfair monopolies. The DOJ claimed RealPage allowed “landlords to manipulate, distort, and subvert market forces” and was “predatory and exclusionary.”
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“Sixth Circuit Reinstates Tennessee Restrictions on First-Time Voters; A divided appeals panel put back in place a Tennesseelaw that prohibits first-time voters from using absentee ballots, after finding the underlying challenge had been mooted”: Kevin Koeninger of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge (..)
Judge Thomas Parker, a judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Friday ruled that Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act (AEA) is unconstitutional. Any law or policy that infringes on a fundamental right must pass strict scrutiny. He stated that free speech does not extend to just words.
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The Volunteer State's law contains a broad exclusion that will allow a university to prohibit an athlete's involvement in NIL activities 'that are reasonably considered to be in conflict with the values of the institution.'.
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The question came through the courts as part of a case trying a Tennessee man convicted of driving after being declared a “motor vehicle habitual offender,” under a law that was later repealed and replaced criminal charges with civil procedures.
In the annals of environmental law, no creature is more famous than the Snail Darter, the endangered species that showdown completion of the Tellico Dam in the 1970s. The controversy began in 1967 when the Tennessee Valley Authority started constructing a dam on the Little Tennessee River, roughly 20 miles outside Knoxville.
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“Gorsuch Stays Quiet at High Court Transgender Rights Argument; Case tests Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors; Gorsuch authored court’s 2020 landmark LGBTQ+ ruling”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report.
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A Tennessee appeals court has unanimously ruled Tim Gilbert, a Black man convicted of aggravated assault and other charges by an all-white jury should get a new trial, saying that prosecutors failed to rebut a claim made by defense lawyers that the room where the jury deliberated was prejudicial to the man, reports the New York Times.
“First Openly Transgender Lawyer to Argue at Supreme Court; ACLU’s Chase Strangio will argue on behalf of minors and their families; Tennessee one of 22 states that ban gender affirming care for minors”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.
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