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PFLAG v Donald J. Trump (8:25-cv-00337)

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TRO granted
2025-02-13

Chris Geidner
NEW: The TRO blocks the feds “from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender affirming medical care to a patient under the age of nineteen under” either applicable EO. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Case 8:25-cv-00337-BAH | Document 61 Filed 02/13/25 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND PFLAG, INC., ET AL., Plaintiffs, V. Civil No. 25-337-BAH DONALD J. TRUMP ET AL., Defendants. * * * * * * * * ORDER For the reasons stated in the forthcoming memorandum opinion and those stated at today's hearing, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, EC 35, is GRANTED. It is further ORDERED that Defendants U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), Acting HHS Secretary Dorothy A. Fink, Health Resources and Services Administration ("HRSA"), HRSA Principal Deputy Diana Espinosa, National Institutes of Health ("NIH"), Acting NIH Director Matthew J. Memoli, National Science Foundation ("NSF"), NSF .Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, and any subagencies of Defendant HHS, their officers, agents, successors, servants, employees, and attorneys, and any other persons who are in active concert or participation with them, are RESTRAINED from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender affirming medical care to a patient under the age of nineteen under Section 3(g) of Executive Order 14168 and Section 4 of Executive Order 14187; it is furtherORDERED that Defendants must provide written notice of the Court's temporary restraining order to all agencies to which the Executive Orders were addressed. The written notice shall instruct those agencies that they may not take any steps to implement, give effect to, or reinstate under a different name the directives in Section 3(g) of Executive Order 14168 or Section 4 of Executive Order 14187 that condition or withhold federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender affirming medical care to a patient under the age of nineteen. The written notice shall also instruct those agencies to release any disbursements on funds that were paused due to the Executive Orders; it is further ORDERED that the temporary restraining order shall be in effect for fourteen (14) days; it is further ORDERED that Defendants shall file a status report on or before February 20, 2025, apprising the Court of the status of Defendants' compliance with this Order, including by providing a copy of the written notice described above; it is further ORDERED that the parties shall meet and confer and file a joint status report proposing a preliminary injunction briefing schedule on or before February 18, 2025; it is further ORDERED that the security requirement is hereby waived because Defendants will not suffer any costs from the temporary restraining order and imposing a security requirement would pose a hardship for Plaintiffs. Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(c). Dated: February 13, 2025 Time: 4:25 pM Brendan A. Hurson United States District Judge