Relief granted to transgender students fighting North Carolina's bathroom law
Source: Reuters
A U.S. judge on Friday blocked the University of North Carolina from enforcing a state law requiring transgender people to use single-sex restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate.
U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder's order granting a preliminary injunction applies only to the three transgender plaintiffs named in a lawsuit challenging the measure, known as House Bill 2 or HB 2. North Carolina in March became the first U.S. state to bar people from using restrooms in government buildings and public schools consistent with their gender identity.
In short, UNC may not apply HB2s one-size-fits-all approach to what must be a case-by-case inquiry, wrote Schroeder, noting that his order effectively returned all involved to the status quo before the new law passed wherein public agencies accommodated the individual transgender Plaintiffs on a case-by-case basis, rather than applying a blanket rule to all people in all facilities under all circumstances.
The judge, an appointee of Republican former President George W. Bush, heard oral arguments in the case on Aug. 1 in Winston-Salem.
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U.S. | Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:40pm EDT
By Colleen Jenkins | WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
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(17,408 posts)nt
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)the anti trans ones do things like set nationwide injunctions?
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)which affected the entire country. The reason he made it a nationwide preliminary injunction, which was not required of him, even though the issue is now before other federal districts courts? He's a Republican judge in Texas? Another Republican judge in Texas did the same thing with PBO's immigration order. I think he claimed that his ruling did not relate to the issue itself, but rather, was based upon a procedural error on the part of the government. Meanwhile, another circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, didn't see that problem.
The UNC case could not have resulted in a nationwide injunction because it involved an NC state law, rather than a federal one.