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Texas doctors department as attorney general investigates hospital’s gender-affirming care | Texas

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An investigation led by Republican Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has sent doctors at an Austin hospital into a panic, causing all the physicians in its adolescent medicine department to depart. Earlier this week, Dell Children’s clinic, which provides gender-affirming care for trans children, announced to parents that they would need to find new providers for their children in transition. In a statement, the hospital said: “We are working with our staff, families, and other providers to ensure our patients’ safety and make sure we are helping families connect with the appropriate healthcare services. While the physicians who previously staffed…
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s expert witness endures scathing cross-examination by the plaintiff’s attorney

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An expert witness in Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski collision trial claimed plaintiff Terry Sanderson’s health symptoms could be linked to dementia rather than the 2016 ski collision. Sanderson was suing Paltrow for $300,000, claiming he was severely injured when Paltrow rammed into him from behind during a day on the slopes at Utah’s Deer Valley Resort. Neuropsychologist Angela Eastvold endured a scathing cross-examination by Sanderson’s lawyers after she told the jury the retired optometrist’s decline in cognition could be connected to possible dementia or even anxiety. She noted that “anxiety was playing a big role in her perceived difficulties” when she…
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Attorneys, advocates seek stay of execution for Missouri man

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An attorney for Raheem Taylor is urging the US Supreme Court to halt a “constitutionally intolerable event” — the potential execution of an innocent man Tuesday evening. Taylor, 58, is scheduled to die at the state prison Bonne Terre, Missouri, for the killings of his live-in girlfriend and her three young children nearly two decades ago. Attorney Kent Gipson’s motion asks the Supreme Court to grant a stay of execution and appoint a special master to review Taylor’s innocence claim. A similar request to the Missouri Supreme Court was turned aside late Monday. The Midwest Innocence Project, the national NAACP…