US EditionFederal judge rules in favor of allowing SCOTUS case over trans athletes to proceed after attempt to dismiss
The lawsuit challenging Idaho’s House Bill 500 will proceed despite dismissal attempts, with the state defending its law as ensuring fair competition, court records show.
- On Tuesday a federal judge in Idaho denied Lindsay Hecox's request to dismiss her challenge to the law banning transgender women and girls from women's sports, keeping the lawsuit pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Hecox first sued in 2020 after the Idaho Legislature passed House Bill 500 banning transgender women and girls from women's sports, and a U.S. District Court injunction was upheld by the 9th Circuit; last year the state asked the Supreme Court to review it.
- Attorneys for Hecox told the Supreme Court on Sept. 2 that continuing the lawsuit would increase harassment affecting her health and graduation, while the American Civil Liberties Union said she is not in covered programs and wants to finish her degree.
- U.S. District Judge David Nye said the state has a `fair right to have its arguments heard and adjudicated once and for all`, and Labrador celebrated the District Court ruling, saying Idaho can now present its case to the nation’s highest court.
- Earlier this year the state asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case, and in July it accepted it, framing the dispute as a national fight, Idaho officials said.
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Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho federal judge keeps transgender athletics lawsuit open
The James A. McClure Federal Building in Boise is the largest of Idaho's federal courthouses. (Otto Kitsinger for Idaho Capital Sun)Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on October 15, 2025 The five-year legal battle over Idaho’s transgender athletics ban will continue, in at least one federal court. On Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Court Judge David Nye kept the case alive in Idaho federal court, while a U.S. Supreme Court appeal is in limbo. Lin…
Trans Idaho athlete’s request to dismiss case denied. Supreme Court could be next
BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — A federal judge in Idaho on Tuesday denied a request from the transgender Boise State University student who asked that the court dismiss her case against Gov. Brad Little over the state’s law banning transgender women and girls from women’s sports. The student, Lindsay Hecox, last month filed a notice to […]
District court keeps transgender athlete case alive as Idaho AG pushes for U.S. Supreme Court review
A federal judge has ruled a lawsuit challenging Idahos ban on transgender women and girls competing in female sports cannot be voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff, keeping the case active as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to hear it.On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge David Nye sided with Idaho Attorney General Ral Labrador, who argued plaintiff Lindsay Hecoxs attempt to withdraw the case violated a stay agreed to by both parties while …
Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Allowing SCOTUS Case Over Trans Athletes To Proceed After Attempt To Dismiss
The legal defense to "save women's sports" scored a big win in its Supreme Court battle over transgender athletes this week.After an Idaho trans athlete tried to have the potential landmark SCOTUS case dropped, a federal judge struck down the attempt to dismiss it and ruled that the case should proceed.U.S. District Judge David Nye, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017, rejected former Boise State trans athlete Lindsay Hecox's motion to d…
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