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The writ is usually issued to a state supreme court (including high courts of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa), but is occasionally issued to a state's intermediate appellate court for cases where the state supreme court denied certiorari or review and ...
The federal government has made clear it does not want Texas poking around in women's medical records, and several states with Democratic legislatures have passed laws or executive orders to ...
The lawyers filed the request under a Texas law that allows "interested parties" to petition the medical board to issue rules about which cases fall under the exception.
The Texas Medical Board, composed of 11 physicians and 5 public members appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, first proposed its new rules governing when doctors can legally perform an abortion in March ...
On remand, the Fifth Circuit (by a 2–1 vote) on January 17 certified to the Supreme Court of Texas the state-law question of whether any of the state defendants had enforcement authority regarding SB 8, second-guessing the 8–1 conclusion of the U.S. Supreme Court that the Texas Medical Board at least "appears" to have enforcement authority ...
Before 1990, the rules of the Supreme Court also stated that "a writ of injunction may be granted by any Justice in a case where it might be granted by the Court." [197] However, this part of the rule (and all other specific mention of injunctions) was removed in the Supreme Court's rules revision of December 1989.
Texans on both sides who gave testimony at the meeting agreed that confusion over the state's near-total abortion ban has left doctors terrified.
As of 2018, the Supreme Court had overruled more than 300 of its own cases. [1] The longest period between the original decision and the overruling decision is 136 years, for the common law Admiralty cases Minturn v. Maynard, 58 U.S. (17 How.) 476 decision in 1855, overruled by the Exxon Corp. v. Central Gulf Lines Inc., 500 U.S. 603 decision ...