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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Larsen finds the lower court properly denied the states' motion for a preliminary injunction on a portion of their claim challenging a Title X rule. The federal government's interpretation of Title X to allow federal funding to family planning facilities that provide referrals to abortion clinics is a reasonable interpretation of the statute under the Chevron doctrine. Such facilities are required to give only neutral information, while funding is not supplied to the abortion clinics themselves. However, the 2021 rule's revocation of "strict physical and financial separation" between family planning facilities and abortion providers is not a reasonable interpretation of Title X, which prohibits funding to programs where abortion is a method of family planning. Ohio is entitled to an injunction to prevent enforcement of that portion of the rule, as it provided evidence its Title X funding dropped 20 percent after the implementation of the 2021 rule. Affirmed in part.