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Northeast Farm Access nonprofit president Bob Bernstein of Antrim is denying allegations of fraud and contract breaches after a New York investor sued him and his associated LLC, which is dedicated to farmland preservation.Bernstein dissected the...
Tennessee transgender bathroom bill blocked by federal court judge Kelly Krueger © Provided by Knoxville WVLT-TV Federal judge temporarily blocks Tennessee bathroom law NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - A federal judge temporarily blocked a Tennessee law that required businesses and government facilities open to the public to post a sign if they let transgender people use multiple stall bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms associated with their gender identity. The law required businesses to post special signs in the public eye if they allow transgender people to use the bathr...
The first-of-its-kind law requires businesses to post signs about trans-friendly bathrooms and took effect July 1. It was signed by Gov. Bill Lee in May. Middle District of Tennessee Judge Aleta A. Trauger issued the ruling Friday granting a temporary injunction against enforcing the law. “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein," Trauger wrote in her 31-page or...
Nation's Most Brazenly Hateful Anti-LGBTQ+ Law Blocked by Judge July 09 2021 7:02 PM EDT One of the nation's most insidious anti-LGBTQ+ laws, which required that Tennessee businesses post signs warning the public that they allow trans patrons to use their facilities, was blocked by a federal judge Friday. Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed House Bill 1182 into law in May, which required any “building or facility open to the general public” that allows trans access to post a sign with this language: “This facility has a policy of allowing the use of restrooms by either biological sex, reg...
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