Judge Tigar Strikes Again - Temp Injunction Against POTUS' Asylum Ban https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/09/09/judge-tigar-doubles-down-on-national-injunction-for-trumps-latest-asylum-rule/?slreturn=20190809162611 U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of the Northern District of California on Monday reinstated a national injunction blocking the Trump administration’s new asylum restrictions, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit initially limited the order to just the circuit’s geographic bounds. What other kinds of things has Tigar been up to during his time on the Bench? Well, there's this for starters: Judge orders California to pay for inmate’s sex change  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge on Thursday ordered California's corrections department to provide a transsexual inmate with sex change surgery, the first time such an operation has been ordered in the state. U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco ruled that denying sex reassignment surgery to 51-year-old Michelle-Lael Norsworthy violates her constitutional rights. Her birth name is Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy. The ruling says it would be the second time nationwide that such a surgery has been performed on an inmate, an apparent reference to an inmate who castrated himself in Texas then was given the surgery out of necessity. Norsworthy has lived as a woman since the 1990s and has what Tigar termed severe gender dysphoria.