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  1. July 12, 2023

    Attys Get $2.2M After Blocking ACA Sex Bias Rule

    Attorneys for religious medical providers who got a court to permanently block the federal government from requiring them to perform abortions or gender-confirmation surgeries or cover those procedures for their employees will take home $2.2 million after a Texas federal judge signed off on their request.

  2. August 10, 2021

    Religious Groups Win Pass On Abortions, Transgender Care

    A Texas federal judge has ruled that several religious medical providers can't be punished by the federal government for refusing to provide abortions or gender transition-related care, despite an anti-bias provision in the Affordable Care Act.

  3. October 16, 2019

    Texas Judge Tosses ACA's Transgender, Abortion Bias Rule

    The Texas federal judge who vacated the Affordable Care Act last year tossed an Obama-era regulation banning federally funded health insurance plans from discriminating on the basis of gender identity, saying the rule violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

  4. July 10, 2017

    HHS Wins Stay In Suit Challenging Transgender Bias Rule

    A Texas federal judge on Monday paused a legal challenge by Texas and several other states and medical groups to a regulation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that bars discrimination on the basis of gender identity, while the agency re-evaluates the rule.

  5. March 15, 2017

    Texas Seeks To Close Door On HHS Transgender Bias Rule

    Several states and medical groups on Tuesday sought to make final a Texas federal court's temporary injunction blocking U.S. Department of Health and Human Services guidance that bars discrimination on the basis of gender identity from taking effect.

  6. January 24, 2017

    Texas Judge Won't Lift Injunction Blocking Anti-Bias Rule

    A Texas federal judge on Tuesday left in place an injunction blocking an Obama administration rule that bars discrimination against transgender individuals under the Affordable Care Act, shooting down the American Civil Liberties Union's request for a stay. 

  7. January 03, 2017

    Texas Judge Blocks ACA Transgender Rule

    A Texas federal judge has blocked an Obama administration rule incorporating gender identity discrimination as part of sex discrimination under the Affordable Care Act, concluding the states and religious medical groups challenging the rule are likely to prove the executive branch went around Congress and violated religious freedoms.

  8. October 24, 2016

    States Ask For Quick Win In ACA Transgender Rule Fight

    Five states, plus three influential religious medical groups, asked a Texas federal judge on Friday for summary judgment in their case against the U.S. Department of Health and Human services over a regulation redefining "sex" under the Affordable Care Act to include gender identity.

  9. September 19, 2016

    ACLU Wants In On Suit Over HHS' ACA Transgender Rule

    The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and a Nebraska-based transgender advocacy organization on Friday asked a Texas federal court to let them intervene in a suit where several states and religious medical groups are challenging a federal regulation barring discrimination against transgender people under the Affordable Care Act.

  10. August 23, 2016

    States, Religious Docs Sue HHS Over Transgender Guidance

    Five states and several religious medical groups filed suit Tuesday in Texas federal court targeting a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulation barring discrimination against transgender people, calling it a "radical invasion of the federal bureaucracy into a doctor's medical judgment."

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