DOE v. LADAPO

CASE NO. 4:23cv114-RH-MAF.

737 F.Supp.3d 1240 (2024)

Jane DOE et al., Plaintiffs, v. Joseph A. LADAPO et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Florida, Tallahassee Division.

Signed June 11, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chelsea Lee Dunn, Simone Michelle Chriss, Southern Legal Counsel Inc., Gainesville, FL, Christopher F. Stoll, Kelly Jo Popkin, Shannon Minter, National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA, Stephanie Peral, Lawrence Dean Silverman, Sidley Austin LLP, Miami, FL, Ami Rakesh Patel, Cynthia C. Weaver, Jason E. Starr, Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Washington, DC, Christopher M. Erchull, Jennifer Lynn Levi, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Boston, MA, Maya Ginsburg, Lowenstein Sandler LLP, New York, NY, Sara L. Mandelbaum, Sidley & Austin LLP, New York, NY, Thomas Edward Redburn, Jr., Lowenstein Sandler PC, Roseland, NJ, for Plaintiffs Jane Doe, Susan Doe.

Christopher M. Erchull, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Boston, MA, Cynthia C. Weaver, Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Washington, DC, Maya Ginsburg, Lowenstein Sandler LLP, New York, NY, Shannon Minter, National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA, Simone Michelle Chriss, Southern Legal Counsel Inc., Gainesville, FL, Thomas Edward Redburn, Jr., Lowenstein Sandler PC, Roseland, NJ, for Plaintiffs Gloria Goe, Gavin Goe.

Christopher M. Erchull, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Boston, MA, Simone Michelle Chriss, Southern Legal Counsel Inc., Gainesville, FL, Thomas Edward Redburn, Jr., Lowenstein Sandler PC, Roseland, NJ, for Plaintiff Lucien Hamel.

Emily J. Witthoeft, Henry Charles Whitaker, James Hamilton Percival, II, Florida Attorney Generals Office Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, Gary Vergil Perko, Joshua E. Pratt, Michael Robert Beato, Mohammad Omar Jazil, William Henry Stafford, III, Holtzman Vogel, Tallahassee, FL, Joseph Edward Hart, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendant Joseph A. Ladapo.

Emily J. Witthoeft, Florida Attorney General's Office, Tallahassee, FL, Gary Vergil Perko, Joshua E. Pratt, Michael Robert Beato, Mohammad Omar Jazil, William Henry Stafford, III, Holtzman Vogel, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendants Scot Ackerman, Nicholas W. Romanello, Wael Barsoum, Matthew R. Benson, Gregory Coffman, Amy Derick, David Diamond, Patrick Hunter, Luz Marina Pages, Eleonor Pimentel, Hector Vila, Michael Wasylik, Zachariah P. Zachariah, Maria Garcia, Nicole Justice, Watson Ducatel, Tiffany Sizemore Di Pietro, Gregory Williams, Monica M. Mortensen, Valerie Jackson, Chris Creegan, William D. Kirsh.

Cortlin Hall Lannin, Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, CA, D. Jean Veta, Emily Michelle Mondry, Noah Shea Goldberg, William R. Isasi, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici American Academy of Pediatrics, Academic Pediatric Association, Child, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Nursing, American Association of Physicians for Human Rights Inc., American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, American Pediatric Society, Association of American Medical Colleges, Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs Inc., Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Pediatric Endocrine Society, Societies for Pediatric Urology, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, Society for Pediatric Research, Society of Pediatric Nurses, World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

Cortlin Hall Lannin, Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, CA, D. Jean Veta, Noah Shea Goldberg, William R. Isasi, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Endocrine Society.


ORDER ON THE MERITS

This class action presents a constitutional challenge to a Florida statute and rules that (1) prohibit transgender minors from receiving specific kinds of widely accepted gender-affirming medical care...

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