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A group of students and educators filed a lawsuit today challenging Florida’s HB 7 — a law that bans Florida educators and students from learning and talking about issues related to race and gender in higher education in classrooms.
The implementation of Florida Statute § 903.286(1) violates the Eighth Amendment and financially guts local reform groups like the Tallahassee Bail Fund
Florida health care providers today sought review in the Florida Supreme Court in their case challenging the state’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy (House Bill 5). The move comes after lower courts repeatedly closed off meaningful legal avenues to block HB 5.
The Board of Medicine voted to accept a petition from the Florida Department of Health to create new rules changing the standard of care for gender dysphoria with the goal of banning any gender-affirming care for Floridians under the age of 18.
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), ACLU of Florida, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and the ACLU Voting Rights Project (ACLU) released a new resource for lawyers and advocacy groups to help Floridians with past felony convictions determine their eligibility to register and vote.
Governor DeSantis' decision today to suspend State Attorney Warren because he dared to stand up for the constitutional rights of Floridians is deeply troubling. Florida law gives independently elected state attorneys broad discretion to determine how best to seek justice in individual cases.