All posts tagged "Eighth Amendment"
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Three women challenge Texas law barring transgender inmates from changing names
Three transgender women have filed a civil suit challenging a Texas law that prohibits current and former transgender federal prison inmates from legally changing their...
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Idaho transgender woman’s surgery stalled pending 9th Circuit decision
Lawyers for Adree Edmo hope the 9th Circuit will find denying her surgery violates her Eighth Amendment rights
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Federal court orders Idaho to provide transgender inmate with gender confirmation surgery
Judge rules Idaho Department of Correction and its medical provider, Corizon, violated Adree Edmo's 8th Amendment rights
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Federal judge rules Missouri transgender inmate is entitled to hormone therapy
A federal judge has ruled that a transgender inmate in Missouri prison who is serving a life sentence for murder must be allowed to receive...
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Transgender inmate in Indiana suing over denial of medical care
A transgender inmate in Indiana is suing the state Department of Correction over its refusal to allow her to receive hormone therapy to treat her...
