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The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the state's sodomy statute was unconstitutional in 1996 in the case of Campbell v. Sundquist. [4]In November 2023, the city of Murfreesboro within Rutherford County, Tennessee formally removed "homosexuality" from its local ordinance that criminalizes it [5] [6] after being ordered to do so by U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw on ...
Attorneys for the Biden administration and transgender youth in Tennessee will press the justices to declare the 2023 law an unconstitutional form of sex discrimination, while the state’s lawyer ...
In a hearing before the Tennessee Court of Appeals Western Section on June 20, 2023, I.J. attorney Josh Windham argued that the state law is unconstitutionally broad. "It allows TWRA officers to ...
Tennessee lost its bid to force the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to restore its Title X funding while the state challenged an HHS rule.
An injunction had been ordered on imposing Florida's law by U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell. [134] Both the Tennessee cases and the Florida case are still pending final judgement, with Attorneys General from South Carolina, [135] Idaho, [136] and Alabama, as well as 14 other states [137] supporting
In 2003, Judge Davenport issued a memo which was interpreted to order that, after a summons is issued, law enforcement officers must always physically arrest the child, and take them to the county's detention center—despite Tennessee state law which requires that, for many juvenile misdemeanor offenses, police officers must release children ...
The law prohibits licensed health care providers from practicing conversion therapy on minors within the state, and took effect 90 days after the adjournment of the legislative session. [77] A bill that previously passed the Maine Legislature in June 2018 was vetoed by former Governor Paul LePage the following month and failed to survive a veto ...
Gov. Bill Lee has paused executions in Tennessee pending correction to the state’s systemic problems with its execution protocol. More: Tennessee executed two inmates by lethal injection since 2018.