Tag: legal proceedings

By SARAH RANKIN - Related Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal decide has dominated that an government order and new Virginia regulation permitting mother and father to choose their youngsters out of classroom COVID-19 masks mandates can't forestall 12 weak college students from looking for a “affordable modification” that might embody a requirement that their classmates put on masks.These college students' well being ...

By KIM CHANDLER - Related Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Two households with transgender teens and two physicians sued the state of Alabama on Monday to overturn a law that makes it a crime for medical doctors to deal with trans youth beneath 19 with puberty blockers or hormones to assist affirm their gender id.The lawsuit was filed in federal courtroom three days after ...

By ED WHITE - Related Press Jurors on Tuesday noticed provocative social media posts written by a key determine charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan's governor, together with a photograph of a noose and a query: Which governor goes to be "dragged off and hung for treason first?”Federal prosecutors are near ending their case after 12 days of trial in Grand Rapids, Michigan. ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville's lead prosecutor says he agrees with protection attorneys {that a} demise row inmate is intellectually disabled and mustn't face execution.District Legal professional Glenn Funk made the evaluation in a submitting this week that determines Byron Black ought to as a substitute face a sentence of life in jail. The inmate's attorneys are arguing the 65-year-old must be spared underneath ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A former Georgia insurance coverage commissioner has been indicted on federal costs associated to an alleged well being care scheme.A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted John Oxendine on costs of conspiracy to commit well being care fraud and conspiracy to commit cash laundering. He pleaded not responsible throughout an preliminary court docket look Friday, in keeping with on-line court docket ...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Superior Courtroom decide on Wednesday denied a movement by Delaware’s Division of Well being and Social Providers to quash a subpoena from the state auditor’s workplace in search of info relating to eligibility for Medicaid packages.Decide Craig Karsnitz rejected the notion that Auditor Kathleen McGuiness doesn't have the authority underneath Delaware legislation to conduct efficiency audits of state companies ...

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and JENNIFER PELTZ - Related Press NEW YORK (AP) — Their advocacy helped ship Purdue Pharma out of business and is forcing the household that has managed the corporate for generations to relinquish possession and supply billions of {dollars} for communities to fight opioid habit.However what victims of opioid abuse and those that have misplaced family members to America's lengthy battle ...

By MEAD GRUVER and LEAH WILLINGHAM - Related Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion bans set to take impact this week in Wyoming and North Dakota have been briefly blocked Wednesday by judges in these states amid lawsuits arguing that the bans violate their state constitutions.A choose in Wyoming sided with a firebombed ladies’s well being clinic and others who argued the ban would ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Mother and father of transgender teenagers filed a lawsuit Tuesday making an attempt to overturn an Alabama legislation that makes it against the law for docs to deal with trans individuals underneath 19 with puberty blockers or hormones to assist affirm their gender id.The brand new lawsuit was filed in Montgomery federal court docket after two earlier lawsuits have been ...

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Related Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Abortion-rights teams went to court docket Thursday in search of to revive abortion companies in Kentucky, a day after the 2 remaining abortion clinics signaled they could not instantly adjust to new restrictions imposed by the state's Republican legislature.Two lawsuits filed in federal court docket in Louisville requested {that a} decide intervene to dam ...