Colorado Judge Recommends Tossing Bookstore Challenge to Law

Feb. 20, 2026, 1:12 AM UTC

Colorado shouldn’t be temporarily barred from enforcing provisions of its antidiscrimination law that provide protections for transgender individuals, a magistrate judge said Thursday.

Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell of the US District Court for the District of Colorado said in a nonbinding recommendation that the Christian bookstore that challenged the law should be denied its request for an injunction. The district judge assigned to the case will decide whether to adopt the recommendation.

The report from Braswell joins two others in separate cases brought by nonprofits, physicians, and a clothing retailer, which challenged the same portions of Colorado’s ...

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