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Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy free speech case
SUMMARY · U.S. Supreme Court reviews Christian counselor’s challenge to Colorado’s conversion therapy ban · Case centers on First Amendment and viewpoint discrimination · Colorado defends law as regulation of […]
Texas drops gender care lawsuit against doctor
Story highlights · Texas AG Ken Paxton’s office drops lawsuit against Dr. Hector Granados · Lawsuit alleged violations of state ban on transgender youth care · Granados provided records showing […]
EEOC allows some transgender bias claims to proceed
Story highlights • EEOC resumes review of select transgender discrimination cases • Complaints involving hiring, firing, or promotion may proceed • Final approval required from Trump-appointed EEOC chair • Critics […]
Judge sides with transgender teen, declines to dismiss suit
NORFOLK (AP) A federal judge on May 22 sided with a transgender teen in Virginia who claims a school board violated his rights when it banned him from using boys’ […]
Verdicts & Settlements
- Medical Malpractice-Patient dies following blood loss in surgery
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Defense points to plaintiff’s prior collision, stressors
- Medical Malpractice – Ingrown toenail removal leads to CRPS type 2
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Rear-seat passenger injured when car hits telephone pole
- Motor Vehicle Negligence- Car crash after back surgery causes additional injuries
- Medical Malpractice – Jurors side with cardiologist over treatment of strokes
- Negligence and Tort- Ice pack use during tattoo removal causes frostbite
- Workers’ Compensation Struck by metal door at workplace, plaintiff sustains subdural hematoma
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Woman struck by vehicle loses senses of taste, smell
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Pedestrian struck by car while in parking lot
- Motor Vehicle Negligence- Driver fractures right leg in tractor-trailer collision
Opinion Digests
- Freedom of Information – Exemption 5 protects draft PTAB written decision
- Fraud – Homeowners’ RICO claim is dismissed
- Criminal – Sex-offender convicted of providing false information
- Evidence – Defendants must respond to post-judgment discovery
- Patent and trademark – Several claims found to be ineligible for patent protection
- Criminal – Evidence supports robbery conviction
- Administrative – Internal Communications Among Patent Judges – Withheld Materials
- Criminal – Denial of continuance wasn’t abuse of discretion
- Criminal – Felony eluding conviction violated Double Jeopardy clause
- Criminal – Defendant was wrongly convicted of two counts of hit-and-run
- Criminal – Sexually-violent predator denied conditional release
- Constitutional – Redistricting effort violated Virginia Constitution
