Courts

A spokesperson in the Dominican Republic says the Tampa Bay shortstop was allegedly fighting with another man over a woman's attention.

Exactech faces more than 2,000 lawsuits alleging it sold defective knee and hip implants. The surprise action dismayed lawyers representing injured patients who have sued the company Alachua County.

The denial means the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for children with gender dysphoria will remain restricted while the federal appeals court considers an underlying case.

Study authors acknowledged that the increase of less than a percentage point is small. But the data suggests that it could number in the hundreds of thousands of women.

The court fight focuses on the Biden administration's extension of Title IX rules to apply to discrimination based on gender identity. The injunction was granted a day before the change was to take effect.

The dispute centers on the Health & Human Services panel's demand for internal info on standards of care for kids with gender dysphoria from the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The 1st District Court of Appeal quickly denied a request filed by Floridians Protecting Freedom, a political committee sponsoring the proposed constitutional amendment.

Amendment 4 supporters accused the members of the Financial Impact Estimating Conference of misleading voters by including that the measure could lead to Medicaid-funded abortions and costly lawsuits.

The judge dismissed the state's lawsuit against two federal agencies and said the case should instead be an administrative challenge. Next stop is the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

The new rule threatens the loss of insurance funds in an attempt to prevent discrimination based on sex, including gender identity. The judge wrote that state agencies faced "imminent injury" because of the rule.

The injunction by a federal judge applies in Alaska, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming, as well as a Stillwater, Oklahoma, middle school that has a student suing and to members of three groups fighting the rule.

After a federal judge ruled Florida's restrictions on treatment for people with gender dysphoria was unconstitutional, 26Health clinic resumed booking appointments.