Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia effectively chose to walk away from a high-profile lawsuit over its transgender pronoun and bathroom policies, agreeing to allow judgment to be entered against the district rather than continue defending its rules in federal court.

Jane Doe, the former Fairfax County student represented by America First Legal, accepted the school board’s Rule 68 offer of judgment last Friday — a procedural tool that lets a defendant end a case by offering the relief a plaintiff could have won at trial. The little-noticed update on the court docket means the district will pay nominal damages of $50 and Doe’s accrued attorney’s fees.

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