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NYU Langone will pay $8.5 million and UPMC $950,000 under Justice Department deals that keep gender-affirming care closed to minors. What started as subpoenas has become a template, and it now runs through the settlement table more than the courtroom.
The justices ruled unanimously that HB 1254 is constitutional under the state constitution — a legally separate question from the one the US Supreme Court answered in Skrmetti last year.
Four families say the hospital still isn't providing the gender-affirming care a court ordered it to resume. They're asking for $50,000 a day in fines. The doctors testified behind closed doors.
Maine's secretary of state struck a proposed school sports and bathroom ban from the November ballot after finding more than 12,000 invalid signatures — leaving the campaign a few hundred short of the threshold. Petitioners have ten days to appeal.
