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June 7, 2012
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Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a mobile banking app security bill that was motivated by the murders of two gay New Yorkers.
The Financial App Security Act would have required mobile banking applications like Zelle, Venmo, and CashApp to require the use of a Personal Identification Number (PIN) when a user made any transaction exceeding a monetary limit of their choosing.
The bill also would have required a PIN before making any payments to another user whose account was created less than 24 hours before the transfer, any payment transactions beyond three made within the same hour, any attempt to sign into the service using a new or unrecognized device, and any other situations that indicating fraud. Most financial institutions, including official banking websites, already have similar, though not identical, security measures in place.
Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), accusing the governing body of college athletics of "deceiving" sports fans by allowing transgender athletes to compete in events marketed as women's competitions.
The lawsuit was filed in Texas District Court. In it, Paxton claims that the NCAA violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by deceiving fans who want to support sporting events featuring athletes whose assigned sex at birth is female.
Instead, he argues, it has subjected fans to watching "mixed sex competitions" where "biological males compete against biological females."
Idaho Republicans are pushing for a resolution urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 ruling legalizing marriage equality nationwide.
An Idaho House of Representatives committee will consider a measure from State Rep. Heather Scott (R-Blanchard) that declares the high court's ruling in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges an "illegitimate overreach."
Scott's resolution asks the court to reinstate the "natural definition of marriage," limiting the practice to heterosexual couples only.
For a decade, conservatives have bemoaned the court's decision, which struck down state-level bans on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. They complain that the court imposed a one-size-fits-all approach that promotes a particular ideological view of marriage.
