Wright v. Roussel

How courts have described this case

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• enjoining the 2 enforcement of President Trump’s ban on transgenders in the military because it likely violated 3 their rights under the Equal Protection Clause
• finding transgender service members met threshold of showing \intentional or purposeful discrimination\ because there was \no doubt\ that policy set apart transgender service members for different treatment
• finding transgender individuals appear to satisfy the criteria of at least a quasi-suspect classification, and that the classification at issue was a form of discrimination on the basis of gender
• dismissing the plaintiffs' APA claim but permitting equal protection and due process claims to proceed in a case challenging the ban on transgender individuals serving in the military
• applying intermediate scrutiny to decision to exclude transgender individuals from the military
• stating, in connection with a motion for preliminary injunction, that “[t}he weight to be accorded to affidavit testimony is within the discretion of the court, and statements based on belief rather than personal knowledge □ may be discounted”

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