Amanda Stewart’s long-delayed quest for justice — already more than a decade in the making — is being pushed back yet again. The reason: the defense attorney is going on vacation.

Stewart, 40, says she’s the victim of wrongful gender reassignment treatment and surgery that she says ruined her life. Her lawsuit says Dartmouth specialist Dr. John Turco and others pushed her into “gender-affirming” hormone treatments and irreversible surgeries without proper evaluation or consent, destroying her health and her future.

Her lawsuit was finally scheduled for a jury trial this coming May.

But that trial is now off the calendar because Turco’s attorney, Michael Pignatelli, has a scheduling conflict.

“The May 2026 trial dates present an irreconcilable conflict for defense counsel Pignatelli, wh

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