Bozeman
A Missoula District Court judge on Thursday heard oral arguments in a case challenging a 2025 state law that could change how some Montanans use public bathrooms and other spaces.
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Virginia
A leading civil rights defense firm has lodged a lawsuit against King George County School Board for allegedly blocking middle school students from creating a student organization supporting LGBTQ+ students. According to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court by the ACLU of Virginia and the Potomac Law Group, two students proposed the Gay-Straight Alliance […]
Commentary
Tennessee’s election season is in full swing, and a cursory view of Republican candidates’ campaign ads would have one think they were watching Saturday Night Live skits. U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, thought to be the frontrunner in the Republican gubernatorial primary, put out an ad laced with Asian stereotypes and racist dogwhistles, in which she […]
Commentary
Denny Hoskins wants to cut a library’s funding over two books he has not read. He Googled them, saw excerpts and looked at some pictures. For Missouri’s secretary of state, that was enough. The books are “Rainbowsaurus,” the tale of a family searching for a rainbow dinosaur, and “Big Wig,” about a child who wins […]
Kansas
TOPEKA — The Kansas attorney general demanded three cities repeal their bans on conversion therapy for minors following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that found such bans violate the First Amendment. Attorney General Kris Kobach sent letters Thursday to city officials in Lawrence, Prairie Village and Roeland Park, requesting they respond within 60 days to […]
Pennsylvania
(Legal Newsline) - Penn State University has been sued for canceling gender-affirming surgery for a non-binary individual because it would have violated one of its hospital’s Catholic principles.
Colorado
One of the first Black state legislators in Colorado passed a civil rights law in 1895 that said public accommodations could not ban people of color. Joseph Stuart, the second Black lawyer to practice in Colorado and the second Black member of the Colorado Legislature, led a bill the same year voters first elected him […]
North Carolina
(The Center Square) – Protection of women’s spaces, including sports, through North Carolina laws has been backed by a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving cases in West Virginia and Idaho.
(The Center Square) – The American Parents Coalition released a “Lookout” notification to parents over the YMCA’s transgender-inclusive camp and programming policies that include allowing males into female cabins and restrooms.
Ohio
(The Center Square) – A Columbus-based nonprofit think tank A nonprofit Ohio-based think tank is demanding Cleveland end what the organization calls its race-based contracting programs, saying they are “unconstitutional and discriminatory.”
