Judicial turf war ignites over DOJ investigations into transgender drugs and surgeries for children
The latest developments came Tuesday, when a federal judge in Maryland weighed a request for nationwide class-action protections against the DOJ’s records requests, while a judge in California moved to halt enforcement of a Texas grand jury subpoena seeking patient records from a children’s hospital. Recommended Stories Judge permanently blocks Alabama from executing inmate with nitrogen gas DOJ slams last-minute lawsuit trying to stop UFC White House event Trump will get another pick on influential federal appeals court People holding small transgender flags in the air. The disputes stem from a nationwide DOJ investigation that began last summer, examining whether hospitals and clinics that performed transgender-related drug treatments or surgical procedures on minors violated federal laws involving fraud, misbranding of drugs, or improper billing practices.
- ▪The latest developments came Tuesday, when a federal judge in Maryland weighed a request for nationwide class-action protections against the DOJ’s records requests, while a judge in California moved to halt enforcement of a Texas grand jury
- ▪Recommended Stories Judge permanently blocks Alabama from executing inmate with nitrogen gas DOJ slams last-minute lawsuit trying to stop UFC White House event Trump will get another pick on influential federal appeals court People holding
- ▪The disputes stem from a nationwide DOJ investigation that began last summer, examining whether hospitals and clinics that performed transgender-related drug treatments or surgical procedures on minors violated federal laws involving fraud,
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A growing legal dispute over the Justice Department’s investigation into hospitals that provide transgender-related drugs and surgeries to children is escalating into a broader judicial turf war, with Democrat-appointed federal judges in multiple states increasingly stepping into proceedings that legal scholars argue are out of their jurisdictions. The latest developments came Tuesday, when a federal judge in Maryland weighed a request for nationwide class-action protections against the DOJ’s records requests, while a judge in California moved to halt enforcement of a Texas grand jury subpoena seeking patient records from a children’s hospital.
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