A federal judge on Friday dismissed a group of sorority members’ lawsuit, which they waged against Kappa Kappa Gamma for admitting a transgender member into its Wyoming chapter - again.
U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson maintained the same stance he had the first time he dismissed this case in August 2023 - that case law prevents courts and governments generally from interfering in the inner associations of a private group like a sorority.
A group of seven (later six) women filed suit against Kappa Kappa Gamma in the spring of 2023, saying sorority leadership violated the group’s own bylaws to induct a transgender member in fall 2022 at its Wyoming-based chapter.
Johnson dismissed their case that August, citing case law giving private organizations the right to dictate the terms