January 03, 2023
The full Eleventh Circuit upheld a Florida school board's policy requiring transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond to their assigned sex at birth, reversing decisions from a district court and two appellate panels that found the rule unconstitutional.
February 22, 2022
Some Eleventh Circuit judges appeared reluctant Tuesday to support a Florida school board's gender-based bathroom policy for students, in the board's third attempt at reversing a lower court's finding that the policy discriminated against a transgender former student.
January 19, 2022
The Eleventh Circuit has granted the federal government's motion to participate in oral arguments in support of a transgender former high schooler's civil rights case alleging gender discrimination by a Florida school board.
November 29, 2021
A group of 23 state attorneys general led by New York's Letitia James have lined up on the side of a transgender Florida student by urging the full Eleventh Circuit to uphold its ruling that his school board's gender-based bathroom policy is unconstitutional.
November 24, 2021
The National Women's Law Center and 50 other civil rights organizations have jointly urged the Eleventh Circuit to uphold a finding that a Florida school board's gender-based bathroom policy is unconstitutional.
August 23, 2021
The Eleventh Circuit on Monday said it will examine a Florida school board's bathroom policy, granting the board's petition for a full rehearing after a split panel twice agreed with a former student that the rule is unconstitutional.
August 05, 2021
A Florida school board has asked the Eleventh Circuit to consider for a third time its bathroom policy that a transgender former student claimed was unconstitutional, seeking a full court rehearing after a divided panel twice ruled in the former student's favor.
July 14, 2021
A divided Eleventh Circuit panel on Wednesday narrowly affirmed for the second time a ruling that a Florida high school's bathroom rules for a transgender former student were unconstitutional, eliciting a scathing dissent from the chief judge.