The court's conservative majority also seems likely to roll back abortion rights in a Mississippi case that was argued last week, although that decision is not expected until the spring. The high court ruling came a day after a state court judge in Texas ruled that the law's enf...
Supreme Court justices rejected several high-profile appeals Monday as they returned to the bench following their summer recess. Among the appeals was a request from the Biden administration to throw out a lower court ruling that said hospitals in Texas cannot be required to provide abortions if ...
Texas pointed to a state Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally. Doctors, though, have said the Texas law is dangerously vague, and a medical board has refused to list ...
Supreme Court settled at least temporarily a dispute in Texas over redistricting by ordering that new maps be drawn for an April 2012 primary in that state, a development seen as favorable to Republicans.BravinJessKoppelNathanEBSCO_bspWall Street Journal Eastern Edition...
Texas courts and the federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled that he missed the deadline. But the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, reversed the appellate ruling. Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented. “If there is a mitigati...
In a brief, five-sentence ruling, the Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law that was forcing many abortion providers to close. “Tomorrow, 13 clinics across the state will be allowed to reopen and provide women with safe and legal abortion care in their own communities,” Nancy Northup, ...
Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the case in light of their ruling last November in another case also involving a claim arising from the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment bar on cruel and unusual punishment. In that ruling, the justices let another Texas inmate p...
AUSTIN –The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to seek medical care for their transgender children. The 8-1 ruling from the all-Republican court, released Friday, leaves in place a law tha...
In a statement by the Texas Attorney General,Ken Paxton, he showed his support for the Supreme Court ruling. “Today, the Supreme Court of Texas unanimously upheld the Human Life Protection Act, one of our state’s pro-life laws,” said Paxton. “I will continue to defend ...
The Supreme Court’s bombshell 5 to 4 ruling this month on Texas’s new abortion restrictions law was both an end and a beginning. It put an end to the hopes of abortion rights activists who wanted to overturn this law before it took effect, but it also marked the beginning of a fren...