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The court unanimously declared the New York City Board of Estimate unconstitutional on the grounds that the city's most populous borough had no greater effective representation on the board than the city's least populous borough (Staten Island), in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the Court's 1964 "one man, one vote" decision (Reynolds v.
Texas abortion ban clarifications. Since Texas enacted one of the nation's strictest abortion bans in 2021, the state's Supreme Court has been tapped to clarify and even consider overturning the law.
A Texas judge Thursday ordered a New York OB-GYN to stop sending abortion pills to the Lone Star state and pay a $100,000 fine for sending the medications to a Texas woman, setting up a legal ...
The 2020 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 5, 2020, and concluded October 3, 2021. The table below illustrates which opinion was filed by each justice in each case and which justices joined each opinion.
A Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to pay more than $100,000 in penalties for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, a ruling that could test “shield laws” in ...
United States v. Texas, 595 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case that involved the Texas Heartbeat Act, also known as Senate Bill 8 or SB8, a state law that bans abortion once a "fetal heartbeat" [a] is detected, typically six weeks into pregnancy. A unique feature of the Act, and challenges to it, is the delegation of ...
The Texas Supreme Court issued a per curiam decision Monday night, but did not actually weigh in on whether Cox’s condition qualified for an abortion under Texas law. Rather, it ruled that ...
Texas abortion statute (or statutes) may refer to one of these laws enacted by the Texas Legislature in the U.S. state of Texas: Texas abortion statutes (1961), portions of the 1961 Texas Penal Code which were held to be unconstitutional in the U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade (decided 1973) Texas Heartbeat Act, effective September 1, 2021 ...