02/13/2025

Judge Orders HHS, CDC and FDA to Restore Deleted Webpages with Health Information

The data had been scrubbed to comply with an executive order

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore webpages and data that had been scrubbed in compliance with President Trump's executive order on gender ideology while litigation moves forward.

U.S. District Judge John Bates agreed to grant a temporary restraining order sought by the nonprofit group Doctors for America, which argued that its members used the websites when treating patients and conducting research. The nonprofit organization said that the removal of the webpages by the Department of Health and Human Services and its components violated federal law.

Bates found that the challengers were likely to succeed in their claims that the HHS, CDC and FDA acted unlawfully when they stripped medical information from public-facing websites.

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