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A Bad Year for Drag Queen Foes

New anti-drag laws were deemed unconstitutional in every state where they were challenged this year.

Reason

Florida rulings ease concerns about drag performers at Pride parades, drag queen story hours

Librarians in Florida who feared fines for hosting drag queen story hours, and Pride parade organizers who worried about citations for including drag performers, can breathe easier now

The Independent UK

Federal judge refuses to limit drag show ruling to just Hamburger Mary’s

A federal judge won’t limit his previous ruling that temporarily blocked a Florida law he has determined violated the constitutional rights of drag performers.

Orlando Sentinel

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Injunction blocking Florida law targeting drag shows applies to all venues, judge says

A federal judge says that his order blocking a Florida law targeting drag shows doesn’t just apply to the restaurant that brought a lawsuit challenging it but other venues in the state

The Independent UK

Michael Hiltzik: In blow to anti-trans bigots, judge finds Florida's treatment ban unconstitutional

A federal judge in Tallahassee left few doubts the other day about what he thought of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' assault on healthcare for transgender Floridians.

Los Angeles Times

Scott Maxwell: Florida drag queen ruling reveals lies. Read the laws yourself

A federal judge in Orlando has delivered yet another legal smackdown to Gov. Ron DeSantis and GOP legislators, this time blocking the state’s new anti-drag-queen law.

Orlando Sentinel

Judge blocks a Florida law that would punish venues where kids can see drag shows

The ruling, in a case brought by a Hamburger Mary's restaurant, pauses enforcement of the state's new "Protection of Children" law, which prohibits admitting children to an "adult live performance."

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Federal court halts Florida’s drag ban, calling it attempt to ‘suppress the speech’ rights of performers

Injunction marks third time this month Florida governor Ron DeSantis has lost in court on signature policies

The Independent UK

Hamburger Mary’s attorney fights ‘coast to coast’ for drag performers’ freedom

Just four days after a federal judge ruled a Tennessee law restricting drag shows was unconstitutional, attorney Brice Timmons was in an Orlando, Florida, courtroom describing how a new Florida law was causing Hamburger Mary’s to censure its drag shows.

Orlando Sentinel

Joel Greenberg sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking, other crimes

ORLANDO, Fla. — Joel Greenberg — who as Seminole County’s tax collector trafficked a teenager, stalked a political rival, stole identities and spent taxpayer funds on paid sex and cryptocurrency, among other misdeeds — was sentenced to 11 years in prison Thursday, bringing to a close one of the most…

Orlando Sentinel

Joel Greenberg sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking, other crimes

Orlando Sentinel

'No precedent': Ahead of Joel Greenberg’s sentencing, judge seeks punishment to fit crimes

ORLANDO, Fla. — A day before Joel Greenberg is slated to face sentencing, a federal judge was struggling to determine an appropriate penalty for the disgraced former elected official due to the breadth of his offenses — ranging from sex trafficking to stalking and bribery.

Orlando Sentinel

Former Florida tax official Joel Greenberg set for December sentencing in federal sex trafficking case

ORLANDO, Fla. — Joel Greenberg — Seminole County’s former tax collector who pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and other federal crimes more than a year ago — is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on Dec. 1, according to federal judge’s order signed Friday.

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