The Latest Breaking News from Doe

From Doe v. Ladapo, decided today by Judge Robert Hinkle (N.D. Fla.): This action presents a constitutional challenge to a Florida statute and rules that (1) prohibit transgender minors from receiving specific kinds of widely accepted medical care and (2) prohibit doctors from providing it. The treatments at issue are…

"An attorney-client relationship between two adults does not present the same inherent danger or foreseeability" as "a relationship between an adult and a child in a religious organization."

Some excerpts from the long decision in Tatel v. Mt. Lebanon School Dist., decided yesterday by Judge Joy Flowers Conti (W.D. Pa.) (and see also the earlier decision in the case): This case involves the extent of parents' constitutional rights when a public school permits a teacher to inculcate the…

White v. Discovery Communications, LLC, decided Wednesday by the Florida Court of Appeal, rejected a man's libel claim against Netflix, on jurisdictional grounds (stemming in part from a particular procedural feature of the case), and against Microsoft on § 230 grounds. The facts are interesting, though largely beside the point…

Another day, another report on Justice Thomas. Today, ProPublica revealed that Harlan Crow paid the private-school tuition of Mark Martin, Justice Thomas's grand-nephew. And Thomas failed to disclose those payments. 5 U.S.C. § 13101(2) only requires disclosures for a gift to a "son, daughter, stepson or stepdaughter." Justice Thomas was…

From Judge Alan Johnson's decision today in Doe v. Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity (D. Wyo.) (the "fraternity" is really a sorority), declining to reconsider an earlier decision: I yearn for the day where litigants seek their courts unburdened by the mere possibility of physical reprisal. That hope may be quixotic…

In Doe v. Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, decided last Thursday by Judge Alan Johnson (D. Wyo.), several members of the KKG sorority at the University of Wyoming (despite the corporate name, KKG is a sorority) sued the central KKG organization for breach of contract and related claims, arising out of…

From Doe v. HireRight LLC, decided yesterday by Judge Stephen McNamee (D. Ariz.): Four years ago, Plaintiff was charged with two felonies. As part of a plea agreement, he pled guilty to both charges in exchange for one of the charges being downgraded to a misdemeanor. Thus, he was convicted…

From yesterday's decision by Magistrate Judge Laura Lothman Lambert (M.D. Fla.) in Doe v. Predator Catchers, Inc.: [D]efendant Predator Catchers, Inc. … "has as its purported mission, the investigation into … and public exposure of sexual predators, principally those preying on minors." … [P]laintiff alleges Predator Catchers uses vigilante tactics,…

From Doe v. Univ. of Penn., decided today by Judge Cynthia Rufe (E.D. Pa.): At all times relevant to this action, Plaintiff was a student in Penn's Pre-Med Post- Baccalaureate Program …. Plaintiff began the Program in May 2020, and had planned to apply to medical school upon its completion…

"I hurt every day," said the victim's mother. "I cry all day, every day."