Parental Rights, Women’s Sports, and Abortion: Supreme Court and State Law Updates
January 20, 2026
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Welcome to the Napa Legal Podcast, where we discuss religious liberty from the perspective of faith-based nonprofits. In this week's episode, Frank DeVito and Joseph Clement explain new legal and policy updates involving public schools that treat students as the opposite sex while lying to parents, women’s sports at the U.S. Supreme Court, and pro-life legislation.
In this episode, we discuss:
1:43 An emergency appeal in a lawsuit against California's parental exclusion policy that instructs school staff to lie to parents about their interactions with students who struggle with gender dysphoria
17:27 Recent oral arguments in a set of cases before the US Supreme Court over state laws that ban men from competing in women's sports
31:37 Two pro-life laws currently working through the New Hampshire Legislature that protect parental and medical conscience rights
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