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Amber Ortega, a Southern Arizona border activist facing two federal charges for protesting the construction of the border wall near Quitobaquito Springs, was found not guilty by a federal judge on Wednesday.
A Tohono O odham woman who protested a border wall being built near sacred land was acquitted after a judge ruled the Religious Freedom Restoration Act applied.
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Trans Prof Wins Documents On Ariz. Health Plan Exclusion
Law360 (April 21, 2021, 4:31 PM EDT) The state of Arizona must produce documents related to why it excluded gender-affirming surgeries from a trans University of Arizona professor s health insurance plan, a federal magistrate judge has ruled, saying the information is likely to be the most reliable evidence on the issue.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie A. Bowman ruled Tuesday that the state can t withhold the documents from the discovery process by citing deliberative process privilege, a common law protection designed to keep certain government decision-making processes private.
Russell Toomey, an associate professor at the University of Arizona and transgender man seeking a hysterectomy his state-provided health plan refuses.