Abbie VanSickle

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Abbie VanSickle |Adam Liptak

4 hours agoWASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on June 20 ruled against a retired firefighter who wants to sue her former employer for reducing health care benefits for disabled retirees, a decision that failed to give the same ADA protections to retirees that current employees have. The court ruled that Karyn …

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Abbie VanSickle |Adam Liptak

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a retired Florida firefighter cannot sue her former employer under federal disability rights law for refusing to provide her the health benefits that she had once been promised. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote the opinion in a tangled decision, finding that because the alleged discrimination took place after the firefighter, Karyn Stanley, had retired and left her job, she could not bring a lawsuit claiming that she was discriminated against in the workplace.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Abbie VanSickle

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law banning some types of medical care, including puberty blockers and hormone therapies, for transgender youth. Here’s what we know so far about what the decision could mean. The decision most likely allows 24 other states with similar bans to bar some treatments for transgender youth. The justices, by a 6 to 3 vote, found that Tennessee could enact legislation that outlawed some types of medical care for transgender youth.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Abbie VanSickle

The Supreme Court last decided a major case about transgender rights in June 2020, a win for the L.G.B.T.Q. community in a dispute over workplace discrimination against gay and transgender workers. In that case, Bostock v.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Adam Liptak |Abbie VanSickle

In a major setback for transgender rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law that bans some forms of medical care for transgender youths. The Tennessee law, like ones in some 20 other states, prohibits medical providers from prescribing puberty-delaying medication, offering hormone therapy or performing surgery to treat the psychological distress caused by incongruence between experienced gender and that assigned at birth.