Federal judge blocks Kansas law defunding of Planned Parenthood
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Kansas [official website] Monday blocked a Kansas law [HB 2014, PDF; materials] that would prevent Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri (PPKM) [advocacy website] from receiving federal funding. Judge J Thomas Marten issued a temporary injunction [AP report] preventing the health centers from losing funding. PPKM filed the lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in June alleging that the HB 2014 violates the Supremacy Clause and the First and Fourteenth Amendments…