Federal judge orders Kansas to fund clinic | Deseret News: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Kansas to restore federal family planning funds to a Dodge City clinic that claims it is "collateral damage" to a new law aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood, saying that the U.S. Constitution trumps state law.
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten granted the request from the unaffiliated Dodge City Family Planning Clinic and ordered the state to immediately pay the clinic. He rejected a state request for a $100,000 bond, calling it "mean-spirited" because they knew the clinic, whose employees have been working without pay, could not meet it.
Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and the unaffiliated Dodge City clinic are challenging a law requiring the state to first allocate Title X monies to public health departments and hospitals, leaving no fund for specialty family planning clinics. They argue that under the Supremacy Clause Kansas cannot impose further restrictions on a federal program.
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