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CINCINNATI (BP) - Southern Baptist ethicist Brent Leatherwood welcomed Thursday’s ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court ruled that an injunction on the law would “limit accountable elected officials from sorting out these medical, social and policy changes.”

Advocacy organizations said the decision “ignored the extensive evidence from the actual medical experts.”

A judge has OK'd the lawsuit of a physician's assistant fired by University of Michigan Health-West for resisting transgenderism decrees.

Some Fayette County parents and their children have filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education and AG Daniel Cameron over SB 150.

Plaintiffs challenging appointments to Asheville’s Human Relations Commission are seeking an emergency restraining order and injunction in federal court. They claim the city is using unconstitutional racial preferences in choosing members for the advisory board. Asheville plans to make appointments to the board on Oct. 10.

Former University of Idaho Professor, Shaakirrah Sanders, settled a $750,000 lawsuit against the University and former Deans in the College of Law based on racial and gender discrimination.  Sanders, who is Black, filed for a lawsuit June 19, 2019, claiming that she was secretly recorded by former deans in the…

The three-day trial is set to begin in the Fifth Judicial District Court Wednesday morning.

Black voters in North Florida elected their preferred candidates for 30 years until Gov. Ron DeSantis redrew district boundaries.

A trial begins Wednesday over New Mexico's congressional map. Unlike some other active fights over redistricting, it's the state's Democratic lawmakers who are accused of crafting illegal districts.