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A trial begins Wednesday over New Mexicos congressional map. Unlike some other active fights over redistricting, its the states Democratic lawmakers who are accused of crafting illegal districts.

His ruling is one of many blocking similar state bans on gender-affirming care.

Youth who are transgender are free to continue receiving gender-affirming medical care in Montana with a preliminary injunction.

The Pacific Legal Foundation is siding with five Asheville-area residents who are suing the city because of racial criteria tied to its Human Relations Commission. PLF and the five plaintiffs filed an amended complaint Tuesday in the case Miall v. Asheville. Plaintiffs argue that Asheville rejected them for the advisory human relations group because they are white.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey does not think the state’s Medicaid plan should cover gender-affirming surgery.

(The Center Square) – West Virginia wants an appeals court to overturn a ruling about whether the state needs to cover sex reassignment surgeries under Medicaid.

A federal judge has set the stage for a trial in a case that charges Michigan officials inflicted a religious discrimination on a medical professional working at the University of Michigan Health-West.

RICHMOND, Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office argued a case before the en banc United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit involving the state’s decision not to cover sex-transition surgeries under its Medicaid plan.

Landscape Consultants of Texas and Metropolitan Landscape Services, which are owned by a white couple in Houston, allege that local government contracting programs aimed at promoting the growth of minority-owned businesses amount to racial discrimination and violate the U.S. Constitution.

A nonprofit filed a civil rights complaint over the weekend against Western Kentucky University (WKU) for two race-based scholarship programs.