U.S. Supreme Court,
Health Care & Hospital Law,
Constitutional Law,
Civil Litigation
Nov. 2, 2021
1908 Supreme Court ruling may determine Texas abortion law fate
Marc Hearron, senior counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights, argued that his client should be able to test the law based on the high court’s century-old holding that then Minnesota Attorney General Edward T. Young could be held in contempt for trying to enforce an unconstitutional law. Hearron cited Ex Parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908).
The U.S. Supreme Court's interpretation of its own precedent regarding a 1908 lawsuit by railroad company shareholders against Minnesota's attorney general may determine the fate of a Texas law allowing private lawsuits against anyone involved with an abortion.
Abortion providers and the U.S. Department of Justice asked the court Monday to allow them to enjoin SB 8, a statute that allows private plaintiffs to sue people who help a woman get...
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