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03-04-2025
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Karen Read judge sued over 'buffer zone' keeping protesters away from courthouse
Four protesters are suing Judge Beverly Cannone over a "buffer zone" that they say unlawfully keeps them too far away from the courthouse where Karen Read's retrial on murder and other charges is underway in Massachusetts. "Cannone has issued this order primarily to quash criticism directed at her, as…the only protests that have been documented have been the Plaintiffs in this case, who have quietly held signs criticizing Cannone," the lawsuit alleges. Those plaintiffs are Massachusetts residents Jason Grant, Allyson Taggart, Lisa Peterson and Samantha Lyons. Their lawsuit also names Geoffrey Noble, the state police superintendent, and Michael d'Entremont, the chief of police in Dedham, where the courthouse is located. In their lawsuit, they are asking a federal court to declare the "buffer zone" an unconstitutional "prior restraint" on free speech and an injunction, plus legal fees. Karen Read Jury Selection: Dozens In Pool Already Have An Opinion On The Case The court established a 200-foot buffer zone around the courthouse building itself and a parking lot behind the nearby Norfolk County Registry of Deeds building ahead of Read's first trial last year. Read On The Fox News App The lawsuit takes issue with the expansion of that zone to extend to 200 feet around Bates Court, Bullard Street, Ames Street and Court Street for her second trial. SIGN UP TO GET True Crime Newsletter "Buffer zones that over-zealously prohibit all First Amendment activity are almost always unconstitutional and this one is no different," said Mark Trammell, a lawyer for the plaintiffs and the executive director of the Center for American Liberty. "The Karen Read trial continues to inspire passionate public debate—and citizens must be allowed to protest peacefully outside their own courthouse." Have A News Tip? Click Here David Gelman, a Philadelphia-area defense attorney who has been following the case, told Fox News Digital the lawsuit is likely to fail. "The judge is not saying they can't protest – the judge is saying they just can't protest at the courthouse," he said. "The reasons are legit too. It could sway a jury each day they enter and leave the building." GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE True Crime Hub Similar orders have been upheld around the country, he added. "The judge is 100% within her right to do this and will prevail," he said. "It's the most common gripe among protesters. All speech is not free speech." Follow The Fox True Crime Team On X Protesters both for and against Read have been regularly attending many of her court dates since she was charged in 2022 with the murder of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe, 46. Go Here For Full Coverage Of The 2Nd Karen Read Trial Read the lawsuit here: A nor'easter tore through the region on the morning he was found dead – Jan. 29, 2022. An autopsy found he had died from trauma to the head and hypothermia. However, the medical examiner left the manner of death "undetermined." The 45-year-old Read's first trial over O'Keefe's death ended with a hung jury last year. Jury selection for the do-over began Tuesday. It is expected to take six to eight weeks after opening statements. Karen Read And John O'keefe: Inside Evolution Of Boston Murder Mystery Since July Mistrial Read is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene of a deadly accident. She could face up to life in prison if convicted of the top charge. Read denied the charges, pleaded not guilty and claimed that she is being framed as part of a police cover-up. Cannone warned potential jurors at the start of jury selection Tuesday not to be influenced by protesters outside. "John Adams said that we are a government of laws, not of men, and that the law must be deaf to the clamoring of the public," she said, referring to the Founding Father with deep Boston roots. "He meant that while the public opinion about a given subject may ebb and flow, the law must be steady, reliable, and even-handed."Original article source: Karen Read judge sued over 'buffer zone' keeping protesters away from courthouse
Fox News
03-04-2025
- Politics
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Karen Read judge sued over 'buffer zone' keeping protesters away from courthouse
Four protesters are suing Judge Beverly Cannone over a "buffer zone" that they say unlawfully keeps them too far away from the courthouse where Karen Read's retrial on murder and other charges is underway in Massachusetts. "Cannone has issued this order primarily to quash criticism directed at her, as…the only protests that have been documented have been the Plaintiffs in this case, who have quietly held signs criticizing Cannone," the lawsuit alleges. Those plaintiffs are Massachusetts residents Jason Grant, Allyson Taggart, Lisa Peterson and Samantha Lyons. Their lawsuit also names Geoffrey Noble, the state police superintendent, and Michael d'Entremont, the chief of police in Dedham, where the courthouse is located. In their lawsuit, they are asking a federal court to declare the "buffer zone" an unconstitutional "prior restraint" on free speech and an injunction, plus legal fees. The court established a 200-foot buffer zone around the courthouse building itself and a parking lot behind the nearby Norfolk County Registry of Deeds building ahead of Read's first trial last year. The lawsuit takes issue with the expansion of that zone to extend to 200 feet around Bates Court, Bullard Street, Ames Street and Court Street for her second trial. SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER "Buffer zones that over-zealously prohibit all First Amendment activity are almost always unconstitutional and this one is no different," said Mark Trammell, a lawyer for the plaintiffs and the executive director of the Center for American Liberty. "The Karen Read trial continues to inspire passionate public debate—and citizens must be allowed to protest peacefully outside their own courthouse." David Gelman, a Philadelphia-area defense attorney who has been following the case, told Fox News Digital the lawsuit is likely to fail. "The judge is not saying they can't protest – the judge is saying they just can't protest at the courthouse," he said. "The reasons are legit too. It could sway a jury each day they enter and leave the building." GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE TRUE CRIME HUB Similar orders have been upheld around the country, he added. "The judge is 100% within her right to do this and will prevail," he said. "It's the most common gripe among protesters. All speech is not free speech." Protesters both for and against Read have been regularly attending many of her court dates since she was charged in 2022 with the murder of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe, 46. Read the lawsuit here: A nor'easter tore through the region on the morning he was found dead – Jan. 29, 2022. An autopsy found he had died from trauma to the head and hypothermia. However, the medical examiner left the manner of death "undetermined." The 45-year-old Read's first trial over O'Keefe's death ended with a hung jury last year. Jury selection for the do-over began Tuesday. It is expected to take six to eight weeks after opening statements. Read is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene of a deadly accident. She could face up to life in prison if convicted of the top charge. Read denied the charges, pleaded not guilty and claimed that she is being framed as part of a police cover-up. Cannone warned potential jurors at the start of jury selection Tuesday not to be influenced by protesters outside. "John Adams said that we are a government of laws, not of men, and that the law must be deaf to the clamoring of the public," she said, referring to the Founding Father with deep Boston roots. "He meant that while the public opinion about a given subject may ebb and flow, the law must be steady, reliable, and even-handed."
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Victims of 'gender industrial complex' will get justice in court, attorney for detransitioners pledges
Lawsuits against doctors, hospitals and gender clinics will proceed despite President Donald Trump's executive order halting federal funding for the "surgical mutilation" of minors, an attorney representing several detransitioners said. This comes as the Department of Education invited detransitioners to a meeting on Detrans Awareness Day last week. "These are young women who, as early as 13 years old, were victimized by this gender industrial complex," Mark Trammell, executive attorney at the Center for American Liberty, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "We have other clients who had double mastectomies at 15, 16, they're all put on puberty blockers, all put on off-label cross-sex hormones, and all without being afforded informed consent." Shortly after Trump's executive order took effect, a federal judge in Baltimore last month issued a temporary restraining order, halting the order's implementation. Trans Inmate In Prison For Killing Baby Must Get Gender Surgery At 'Earliest Opportunity': Judge As such, some hospitals that had previously complied with Trump's order reversed course, Trammell said, citing the Children's Hospital Los Angeles as an example that had re-introduced some of its so-called gender-affirming treatments. Read On The Fox News App "But what can stick is lawsuits," Trammell said. "And at the end of the day, we can achieve justice. We can secure justice for these young women by hopefully recovering financial damages for what they've suffered." Trammell noted that their involvement with gender ideology lawsuits began with cases involving social transitions in schools, such as the case of Jessica Konen, which resulted in a settlement with a school district. He said many parents became aware of the issue when they discovered that schools were socially transitioning children, sometimes as young as fifth grade, without notifying parents. One of Trammell's clients, Aurora Regino, learned her daughter was being socially transitioned from female to male in school, including using a male name and pronouns, without any communication with her mother. "We're suing doctors individually, holding them personally liable," Trammell said. "We're also suing the hospitals that employ them. And so these are, again, these are cases that are being brought in tort. So the idea is we're going to sue the individuals who caused the injury." Blue State's Lgbt 'Conversion Therapy' Ban Violates Constitution, 'Very Easy Case' For Scotus, Says Expert Last week, the Department of Education hosted a meeting with six detransitioners and activists "fighting to protect children from the serious harms caused by radical gender ideology," the department said in a March 10 news release. The group shared its concerns about gender ideology in schools with new Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. Trammell said the administration's meeting with the activists was "encouraging" to see them "even recognizing just their existence." "No teacher should attempt to persuade or coerce a student to undergo a gender transition," McMahon said in a statement. "No parent should be lied to or prevented from knowing what is going on with their child's mental or physical health. We stand firmly alongside parents, professionals, advocates, and especially detransitioners, who understand firsthand the damage caused by indoctrinating kids to believe that they can ever be 'born in the wrong body.'" The federal judge's restraining order also hasn't stopped Trump from continuing full steam ahead to stamp out what he calls "radical gender ideology" as the administration reminded hospitals of "the dangerous chemical and surgical mutilation of children, including interventions that cause sterilization," in a Department of Health and Human Services memo sent out to hospitals and medical providers last week. Hospitals Warned They Must Protect Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation: Hhs Agency Memo The notice also said, "CMS may begin taking steps in the future to align policy, including CMS-regulated provider requirements and agreements, with the highest-quality medical evidence in the treatment of the nation's children in order to protect children from harmful, often irreversible mutilation, including sterilization practices." "In recent years, medical interventions for gender dysphoria in children have proliferated," the memo reads. "Initiated with an underdeveloped body of evidence and now known to cause long-term and irreparable harm to some children, CMS may begin taking steps in the future to adjust its policies to reflect this reality and the lack of medical evidence in support of these harmful treatments."Original article source: Victims of 'gender industrial complex' will get justice in court, attorney for detransitioners pledges
Fox News
18-03-2025
- Health
- Fox News
Victims of 'gender industrial complex' will get justice in court, attorney for detransitioners pledges
Lawsuits against doctors, hospitals and gender clinics will proceed despite President Donald Trump's executive order halting federal funding for the "surgical mutilation" of minors, an attorney representing several detransitioners said. This comes as the Department of Education invited detransitioners to a meeting on Detrans Awareness Day last week. "These are young women who, as early as 13 years old, were victimized by this gender industrial complex," Mark Trammell, executive attorney at the Center for American Liberty, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "We have other clients who had double mastectomies at 15, 16, they're all put on puberty blockers, all put on off-label cross-sex hormones, and all without being afforded informed consent." Shortly after Trump's executive order took effect, a federal judge in Baltimore last month issued a temporary restraining order, halting the order's implementation. As such, some hospitals that had previously complied with Trump's order reversed course, Trammell said, citing the Children's Hospital Los Angeles as an example that had re-introduced some of its so-called gender-affirming treatments. "But what can stick is lawsuits," Trammell said. "And at the end of the day, we can achieve justice. We can secure justice for these young women by hopefully recovering financial damages for what they've suffered." Trammell noted that their involvement with gender ideology lawsuits began with cases involving social transitions in schools, such as the case of Jessica Konen, which resulted in a settlement with a school district. He said many parents became aware of the issue when they discovered that schools were socially transitioning children, sometimes as young as fifth grade, without notifying parents. One of Trammell's clients, Aurora Regino, learned her daughter was being socially transitioned from female to male in school, including using a male name and pronouns, without any communication with her mother. "We're suing doctors individually, holding them personally liable," Trammell said. "We're also suing the hospitals that employ them. And so these are, again, these are cases that are being brought in tort. So the idea is we're going to sue the individuals who caused the injury." Last week, the Department of Education hosted a meeting with six detransitioners and activists "fighting to protect children from the serious harms caused by radical gender ideology," the department said in a March 10 news release. The group shared its concerns about gender ideology in schools with new Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. Trammell said the administration's meeting with the activists was "encouraging" to see them "even recognizing just their existence." "No teacher should attempt to persuade or coerce a student to undergo a gender transition," McMahon said in a statement. "No parent should be lied to or prevented from knowing what is going on with their child's mental or physical health. We stand firmly alongside parents, professionals, advocates, and especially detransitioners, who understand firsthand the damage caused by indoctrinating kids to believe that they can ever be 'born in the wrong body.'" The federal judge's restraining order also hasn't stopped Trump from continuing full steam ahead to stamp out what he calls "radical gender ideology" as the administration reminded hospitals of "the dangerous chemical and surgical mutilation of children, including interventions that cause sterilization," in a Department of Health and Human Services memo sent out to hospitals and medical providers last week. The notice also said, "CMS may begin taking steps in the future to align policy, including CMS-regulated provider requirements and agreements, with the highest-quality medical evidence in the treatment of the nation's children in order to protect children from harmful, often irreversible mutilation, including sterilization practices." "In recent years, medical interventions for gender dysphoria in children have proliferated," the memo reads. "Initiated with an underdeveloped body of evidence and now known to cause long-term and irreparable harm to some children, CMS may begin taking steps in the future to adjust its policies to reflect this reality and the lack of medical evidence in support of these harmful treatments."
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Trump signs executive order restricting 'chemical and surgical' sex-change procedures for minors
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to restrict "chemical and surgical" sex-change procedures for minors. "Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child's sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions," the order, entitled "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation," states. "This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation's history, and it must end." "Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding," the order continues. "Moreover, these vulnerable youths' medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization." Therapists Sound Alarm After Study Shows Dramatic Rise In Gender Dysphoria Among Children "Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures," it says. Posting on Truth Social, Trump said, "Today, it was my great honor to sign an Executive Order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of America. Our Nation will no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support so-called 'gender affirming care,' which has already ruined far too many precious lives. My Order directs Agencies to use every available means to cut off Federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures, that should have never been allowed to take place!" Read On The Fox News App Mark Trammell, the executive director and general counsel of the Center for American Liberty, which represents some detransitioners in lawsuits, praised Trump's action. "President Trump is to be commended for his incredible leadership protecting vulnerable children from the gender industrial complex," Trammell said. "This executive order rightly distances federal agencies from the discredited World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) while also withholding federal funding from institutions that chemically and surgically mutilate kids." "It is pathetic that Joe Biden lacked the moral and intellectual clarity to issue such an executive order, instead elevating politics over the health of vulnerable children," he added. Detransitioner Slams Trans 'Pseudoscience' That Doctors Said Would Solve Her Mental Distress: 'It's Quackery' Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson said in response to the order, "Everyone deserves the freedom to make deeply personal health care decisions for themselves and their families - no matter your income, zip code, or health coverage. This executive order is a brazen attempt to put politicians in between people and their doctors, preventing them from accessing evidence-based health care supported by every major medical association in the country. "It is deeply unfair to play politics with people's lives and strip transgender young people, their families, and their providers of the freedom to make necessary health care decisions. Questions about this care should be answered by doctors - not politicians — and decisions must rest with families, doctors, and the patient." On Friday, the Trump Department of Justice dropped charges against Dr. Eithan Haim who blew the whistle on transgender medicine being performed on minors in Texas. Click To Get The Fox News App The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month challenging a Tennessee law banning transgender medical treatments for children in December. A ruling in the high-profile case is expected by July 2025. Over two dozen states have enacted similar bans restricting minors from accessing transgender medical treatment. This story is breaking. Please check back for updates. Original article source: Trump signs executive order restricting 'chemical and surgical' sex-change procedures for minors
