WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The Military Officers Association of America issued the following news: Twenty VA facilities in 19 states began offering "select health care services" May 18 - procedures and appointments that had been discontinued as part of the department's COVID-19 response. Veterans seeking care at the following sites should contact their provider or the facility to find out which services will be offered: * Arkansas: Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (HCS) * Arizona: VA S  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- The National Center for Lesbian Rights issued the following news release: The U.S. Supreme Court denied an attempt by the State of Idaho to delay Adree Edmo's medically necessary gender confirmation surgery as that Court considers whether to review her case. Ms. Edmo, a transgender prisoner, sued the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) and its private healthcare provider Corizon Health, for withholding critical medical care. In August 2019, the 9th Circuit Court of App  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 22 -- The Pacific Legal Foundation issued the following news release: An Idaho couple filed a motion to intervene in California's challenge to the Trump Administration's Navigable Waters Protection Rule. For more than 13 years, Mike and Chantell Sackett have fought the EPA for the right to build a house on their residential lot in Priest Lake, Idaho. That fight took them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. They hoped that their ordeal was over when the administrat  more