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The most far-reaching is the state's "trigger law" (House Bill 1280), also called the Human Life Protection Act, which went into effect two months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v ...
Low-Income Women of Texas v. Raiford was filed in the Texas District Court on March 10, 1993, to challenge the Texas state constitutionality of denying state funding for abortions when a physician deems the abortion medically necessary. [33] In 2003, Norma McCorvey filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Dallas with the goal of overturning the ...
The Texas Heartbeat Act contains twelve sections. [55] Although the Act is best known for its provisions that outlaw abortion after cardiac activity has been detected, and that authorize private lawsuits against those who violate the Act, the Act includes other provisions that further restrict abortion and deter litigants from challenging abortion laws in court. [56]
In one of the odd provisions of the Texas Government Code, there is no requirement that a municipal judge be an attorney if the municipal court is not a court of record (Chapter 29, Section 29.004), but the municipal judge must be a licensed attorney with at least two years experience in practicing Texas law if the municipal court is a court of ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday threatened to prosecute any doctors involved in providing an emergency abortion to a woman, hours after she won a court order allowing her to obtain ...
Kate Cox, the plaintiff in a high-profile legal challenge to Texas' abortion laws, announced Monday that she was leaving the state to terminate her pregnancy.Under Texas law, some experts say ...
Texas House Bill 2 (HB2) is a bill within the Eighty-third Texas Legislature, first introduced into the Texas Senate as Texas Senate Bill 5 (SB5) on June 11, 2013, related to abortion rights within the state.
Most of the nation’s largest law firms have offices in Wilmington, home to the state’s Court of Chancery, where most corporate disputes are tried, as well as the Delaware Supreme Court.