CHICAGO — An Illinois federal court granted the American Academy of Pediatrics a preliminary injunction blocking a Florida enforcement lawsuit that accused the nonprofit pediatricians’ organization of deceptive trade practices, racketeering and antitrust violations based on its advocacy for gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The academy plausibly alleged Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed the suit to punish and suppress its protected speech. The Florida complaint contains significant misrepresentations of the academy’s policy statements, rests on a weak theory that its medical guidance constituted commercial speech and appears to have been brought in bad faith without a reasonable expectation of success.
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