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Omaha Steve

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Fri Sep 16, 2016, 11:00 PM Sep 2016

Omaha group looks to intervene in Nebraska's suit over federal transgender directive

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Martha Stoddard

LINCOLN — The Omaha-based River City Gender Alliance has asked to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Nebraska and three other states challenging new federal health care rules.

The rules, which were finalized in May, bar discrimination by doctors, hospitals and insurers against transgender people.

Nebraska filed the challenge along with Texas and three other Republican-led states in late August.

At the time, State Attorney General Doug Peterson said the suit addressed an attempt by the Obama administration to expand the definition of legal terms beyond that intended by Congress.

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Sat Sep 17, 2016, 01:25 AM
Sep 2016

"On Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion to intervene on behalf of the Omaha group and the ACLU of Texas, saying the states were seeking to undermine anti-discrimination measures and allow religion to be used to harm others."

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