DOJ Urges California Court to Stay Out of Transgender Health Case

The Justice Department argued that a California court lacks the authority to stop a grand jury subpoena issued by a different district court seeking transgender minor’s medical records from Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

“A challenge to a federal grand jury subpoena belongs in the district court supervising the grand jury that issued the subpoena, not in a separate federal district through collateral civil litigation,” the government’s lawyer’s argued in a brief filed Wednesday to the US District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose.

The brief marks the government’s first opportunity to weigh in on the case ...