DEKKER v. WEIDA

CASE NO. 4:22cv325-RH-MAF.

679 F.Supp.3d 1271 (2023)

August DEKKER et al., Plaintiffs, v. Jason WEIDA et al., Defendants.

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

Signed June 21, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chelsea Lee Dunn, Simone Michelle Chriss, Southern Legal Counsel, Gainesville, FL, Katherine Jean Ann Debriere, Florida Health Justice Project, Jacksonville, FL, Abigail K. Coursolle, National Health Law Program, Los Angeles, CA, Carl Solomon Charles, Lambda Legal, Decatur, GA, Catherine Anne McKee, National Health Law Program, Chapel Hill, NC, Gary Joseph Shaw, William Clarke Miller, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw etc. LLP, Washington, DC, Joseph K. Little, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw etc., Sacramento, CA, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, Lambda Legal, New York, NY, Shani Rivaux, Jennifer G. Altman, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw etc. LLP, Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs.

Gary Vergil Perko, Joshua E. Pratt, Michael Robert Beato, Mohammad Omar Jazil, Holtzman Vogel, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendants Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Jason Weida.

Cortlin Hall Lannin, Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, CA, D. Jean Veta, Emily Michelle Mondry, William R. Isasi, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici American Academy of Pediatrics, Academic Pediatric Association, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Nursing, 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, Endocrine Society, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Child, 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, American Psychiatric Association.

Joseph John Krasovec, III, Arentfox Schiff LLP, Chicago, IL, Kaila D. Clark, Valerie C. Samuels, Arentfox Schiff LLP, Boston, MA, for Amici Abdul-Latif Hussein, Susan D. Boulware, Rebecca Kamody, Laura Kuper, Meredithe Mcnamara, Anne Alstott.

Emily Michelle Mondry, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, Joseph John Krasovec, III, Arentfox Schiff LLP, Chicago, IL, Kaila D. Clark, Valerie C. Samuels, Arentfox Schiff LLP, Boston, MA, for Amici Christy Olezeski, Nathalie Szilagyi.

D. Jean Veta, Emily Michelle Mondry, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, Barry Richard, Barry Richard Law Firm, Tallahassee, FL, for Amicus Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Alexander Barrett Bowdre, Office of the Attorney General State of Alabama, Montgomery, AL, Erik Matthew Figlio, Ausley McMullen, Tallahassee, FL, for Amicus Alabama.

Erik Matthew Figlio, Ausley McMullen, Tallahassee, FL, for Amici Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana.

Emily Michelle Mondry, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, Erik Matthew Figlio, Ausley McMullen, Tallahassee, FL, for Amici Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia.

Emily Michelle Mondry, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, Daniel D. Mauler, Pro Hac Vice, Heritage Action for America, Washington, DC, Andy V. Bardos, GrayRobinson PA, Tallahassee, FL, for Amici Jay W. Richards, Roger Severino, Rachel N. Morrison, Maya Norohna, Christine Pratt.

Brian Wesley Barnes, David Henry Thompson, John D. Ramer, Cooper & Kirk PLLC, Washington, DC, for Amicus Do No Harm.

Andy V. Bardos, GrayRobinson PA, Tallahassee, FL, Daniel D. Mauler, Pro Hac Vice, Heritage Action for America, Washington, DC, for Amici Louis Brown, Jr., Marie Meszaros.

Andy V. Bardos, GrayRobinson PA, Tallahassee, FL, Eric Nieuwenhuis Kniffin, Kniffin Law PLL, Colorado Springs, CO, for Amici Walt Heyer, Ted Halley, Clifton Francis Burleigh, Jr.

Barrett James Anderson, Cooley LLP, San Diego, CA, Elizabeth F. Reinhardt, Cooley LLP, Washington, DC, Julie Michelle Veroff, Kathleen R. Hartnett, Zoe Wynne Helstrom, Cooley LLP, San Francisco, CA, Katelyn Kang, Cooley LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Biomedical Ethics and Public Health Scholars.

Ming Hao Chuang, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Robert M. Kline, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Miami, FL, for Amici Florida Policy Institute, Florida Voices for Health.

Emily Michelle Mondry, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, Kathleen Marie Boergers, Office of the Attorney General, Oakland, CA, for Amicus State of California.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

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