Roberta Kaplan of Kaplan Hecker & Fink in New York, along with co-counsel at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, have filed a civil rights lawsuit in Florida Northern District Court on behalf of plaintiffs and their parents against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Florida State Board of Education and the Florida Department of Education over the state’s Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

The lawsuit seeks to enjoin the defendants from implementing the law on the basis that it violates free-speech protections, the Equal Protection Clause and Title IX.

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