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School gender policies

CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit affirmed a Wisconsin federal court’s dismissal of parents’ suit over school district policies governing kids who question or explore their gender expression, finding the parents lack standing because the policies do not harm them or their constitutional rights.

Discrimination in benefits

FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal court in Texas granted an injunction requested by white entrepreneurs who were denied federal assistance for their businesses through the Minority Business Development Agency, which unconstitutionally keeps a “codified list of preferred races” for receiving benefits. Two of the three small business owners win summary judgment on their claims, while jurors could reasonably question the last one’s standing to sue.

Suicide gun sale

AUSTIN, Texas — An appeals court in Texas upheld the trial court’s determination that a sporting goods store was not negligent in selling a gun to a woman, who later used it to commit suicide. The store complied with gun sales regulations and no evidence brought by the woman’s father showed that the store “failed to act as a firearms seller of ordinary prudence.”

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