A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s rewrite of a rule implementing Obamacare’s anti-bias provision in a way that could allow discrimination against LGBTQ people was halted Tuesday by a federal judge in Washington pending the rule’s review by President Joe Biden’s administration.
Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia canceled a hearing set for Wednesday between the U.S. Health and Human Services Department and groups suing over the changed rule. Challengers include health-care provider Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc. and advocacy groups like Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Boasberg had ordered the parties to address whether ...