Schools Can’t Challenge Colorado Civil Rights Law, Judge Says

A group of Colorado school districts and charter schools failed to convince a federal magistrate judge that they can pursue their challenge to a state law that protects transgender people.

The districts can’t pursue their Fourteenth Amendment claims made on their own behalf against the state and they also lack third-party standing to sue on behalf of their students, said Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell, of the US District Court for the District of Colorado.

Braswell on Tuesday recommended that the districts’ claims be dismissed with prejudice.

The recommendation comes as businesses and schools take issue with ...