Federal Judge Rejects Restraining Order on HUD Rule Requiring College Boys and Girls to Share Bathrooms, Showers

Williams Memorial Chapel, College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Mo., on April 30, 2016. Nan Fry via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0

A federal district court judge on May 19 rejected a motion filed on behalf of the College of the Ozarks seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) against a new regulation barring schools from maintaining separate bathrooms and showers for male and female students.

Judge Roseann Ketchmark of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri heard arguments from both sides of the case for about two hours, then said from the bench that she was denying the motion and observed that it was “not justiciable.”