A federal judge quashed a Justice Department administrative subpoena seeking hospital records on transgender children, saying prosecutors “misrepresented and withheld information” from two district courts.
By nixing the subpoena and blocking DOJ from seeking or obtaining any of the records it covered, Judge Mary S. McElroy’s Wednesday order in the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island effectively nullifies an April 30 enforcement order DOJ obtained from Judge Reed O’Connor in the Northern District of Texas. O’Connor directed a Rhode Island hospital to comply with the document request.
DOJ’s petition in O’Connor’s court followed a series of losses ...
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