Washington Law Against Conversion Therapy Survives Constitutional Attack

September 7, 2022

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9^th Circuit, which included the first member of that bench appointed by President Donald Trump, unanimously ruled in Tingley v. Ferguson, 2022 WL 4076121 (September 6) that a circuit precedent from 2014, Pickup v. Brown, 740 F. 3d 1208, which rejected a constitutional challenge to California’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, is still a binding precedent in the 9^th Circuit, thus … <Read More>

9th Circuit Panel Orders Gender Confirmation Surgery for Transgender Inmate in Idaho

August 28, 2019

A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9^th Circuit ruled on August 23 that the Idaho Department of Corrections violated the 8^th Amendment rights of Adree Edmo, a transgender inmate, when it denied her gender confirmation surgery. The court’s opinion, issued collectively by the three judges as “per curiam,” provides such an extensive discussion of the medical and legal issues that it could serve as a textbook … <Read More>