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A three-judge panel ruled 3–0 in rejecting the law, which was passed by the GOP-controlled state Legislature in 2021.A federal appeals court on Monday ruled in favor of the Biden administration by scrapping a Missouri state law that declared several federal gun laws invalid.A three-judge panel of the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Missouri’s bid to reverse a lower-court judge’s decision to bar the state from enforcing a 2021 law known as the Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA).U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes in 2023 declared the law unconstitutional. But Missouri, under Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey,...

On Thursday, a federal appeals court ruled that Arkansas cannot enforce a ban on “transgender” children receiving “gender-affirming” care. “Gender-affirming” care encompasses hormone therapy, puberty blockers and sex reassignment surgery. The 8th U.S. The Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a judge’s ruling temporarily blocking the state from enforcing the law, which prohibits doctors in the state from providing this type of care to anyone under 18 years old or referring them to other providers to receive treatment. The ACLU challenged the 2021 law on behalf of four families of transgender children and two doctors who provide “gender affirming” treatments.