August 06, 2024
Florida officials have implored the Eleventh Circuit to allow enforcement of the state's recently enacted law restricting gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors and adults, arguing that a federal judge's order to enjoin enforcement of the law was erroneous.
July 31, 2024
Lowenstein Sandler LLP attorneys led the litigation team behind a recent federal court ruling blocking a Florida law banning or restricting gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors and adults.
July 11, 2024
A federal judge denied Florida's request Thursday to pause a court order blocking a state law that bans or restricts gender-affirming care for transgender minors and adults while it challenges the ruling at the Eleventh Circuit, finding the state hasn't shown it would be harmed by the law's stagnation.
July 11, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed an Idaho law banning gender-affirming care for minors to become effective, the Eleventh Circuit upheld a trial court win for a transgender public safety employee in a healthcare discrimination suit and a Florida federal judge blocked as unconstitutional a state law restricting gender-affirming care for minors and adults.
June 11, 2024
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday declared that a state law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors and restricting it for adults is unconstitutional because it was motivated by animus for a specific group of people and serves no legitimate state interest.
October 18, 2023
A Florida federal judge certified classes of transgender adults and minors challenging a state ban on gender-affirming care and restrictions on adults receiving it, saying Wednesday the case is "another in a long line of cases alleging unconstitutional discrimination by state actors," which can be resolved on a class-wide basis.
September 01, 2023
Attorneys representing three groups of transgender individuals urged a Florida federal judge Friday to grant them class certification in order to challenge a state ban on gender-affirming care and to lift restrictions on adults receiving it, saying the law isn't meant to mitigate risk but instead show "moral disapproval."
August 01, 2023
Transgender adolescents and their parents seeking to overturn Florida's ban on puberty blockers for transgender minors urged a federal judge Monday to grant them class certification, arguing that the new law has created legal obstacles affecting "all transgender persons in Florida in similar ways."
June 06, 2023
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday blocked the enforcement of a state ban on medical care for transgender adolescents, ruling that a law that prevents parents from making informed decisions on their children's medical treatment and receiving doctor-recommended health care is likely unconstitutional.