(AP) – The legal fray in Kansas over a state law aimed at stripping a Planned Parenthood chapter of federal family planning money is now being played out before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

On Friday, the state filed its second appeal in the case to the 10th Circuit.

It is now appealing the ruling by U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten mandating the state to resume federal Title X funding to the unaffiliated Dodge City Family Planning Clinic.

The state’s appeal of a similar order regarding funding Planned Parenthood’s clinics in Wichita and Hays is already pending.

At issue in the lawsuit is the constitutionality of a new Kansas law requiring the state to first allocate federal Title X money to public health departments and hospitals.