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An appeals court has denied a request by 12 Republican-led states to block a Biden administration rule that allows family planning clinics receiving federal money to promote abortion.

On Friday, a federal appeals court handed another victory to opponents of the Biden administration’s vaccine/testing mandate when it upheld an earlier stay and called the rule a “staggeringly overbroad” policy that likely violates both the U.S. Constitution and federal law.

Last Thursday, a Louisiana appeals court issued a temporary restraining order against a healthcare company, stopping it from firing its employees who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

A federal appeals court judge voted with his colleagues Friday in overturning a Tennessee heartbeat abortion ban, but in the process also criticized the U.S. Supreme Court for legalizing abortion.

On Friday an appeals court ruled that Hobby Lobby violated an Illinois anti-discrimination law when it prohibited a biological male employee who identifies as female from using the women’s restroom.

This week, a federal appeals court upheld part of an Indiana law that requires abortion facilities to report any complications from abortions to the state.

On Thursday, a federal appeals court upheld a Tennessee law that requires a pregnant woman to wait 48 hours before obtaining an abortion.

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed a Seattle-based church a major legal victory on Thursday when it ruled that the congregation was harmed by a new law forcing insurance plans to cover abortion.

Joseph Kennedy, a high school football coach who was fired for praying after football games, is taking his case to the U.S. Supreme Court after losing a recent appeal.

The Appellate Court date is set for the trial of Dylann Roof, the man responsible for the racist slaying of nine congregants at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.