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March 21, 2025   
Health Law Weekly

Fifth Circuit Dismisses Appeal of Nationwide Injunction Blocking Section 1557 Final Rule on Nondiscrimination Protections for Gender Identity

  • March 21, 2025

The Fifth Circuit dismissed March 13 an appeal of a nationwide injunction of a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) final rule issued last year indicating that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) nondiscrimination prohibition in health care “on the basis of sex” includes gender identity. Tennessee v. Kennedy, No. 24-60462 (5th Cir. Mar. 13, 2025).

 

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