Sunday, February 2, 2014

Ninth Circuit refuses to rehear sexual orientation conversion therapy case

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday denied [order, PDF] petitions for panel and en banc rehearing of its decision upholding California's law [text, PDF] prohibiting licensed therapists from utilizing sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE), also known as conversion therapy. The plaintiffs in the case, which include a group of SOCE practitioners, filed [petition, PDF] for panel and en banc rehearing in September after the Ninth Circuit upheld [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] the...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/01/ninth-circuit-refuses-to-rehear-sexual-orientation-conversion-therapy-case.php

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