A decade-old lawsuit has brought the state foster care system to a crossroads between high standards and availability.
While school tension over masks is hardly new, the district's fight comes during its first recent F rating, a lawsuit, and serious claims.
The U.S. Department of Justice asked the court to halt private lawsuits against violators of the Texas Heartbeat Act.
Nancy Pelosi says that the House will consider legislation to “codify Roe v. Wade” and nullify the new Texas abortion law.
“Federal courts enjoy the power to enjoin individuals tasked with enforcing laws, not the laws themselves."
Reps. Cain and Slaton filed impeachment resolutions against judges who tried to prevent efforts to bring quorum-breaking Democrats back to the Texas House.
“This case, and others like it, are not about whether people should wear masks or whether the government should make them do it."
Defendants argued that abortion providers couldn't sue the government for injuries incurred by private lawsuits. Judge Pitman disagreed.
The district court's order temporarily suspends the Biden administration's revocation of Texas Section 1115 Medicaid waiver.
After Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued, the district said its vaccine requirement for staff would not apply to vaccines authorized for emergency use.
Abbott called the regular appeal process too slow to address Harris County's mask mandates. The Supreme Court of Texas was unconvinced.
“Dismemberment [dilation and evacuation abortions] are self-evidently gruesome,” the majority opinion reads.
While pointing out that most other hospitals have not mandated vaccines, a new lawsuit cites Governor Abbott’s executive orders and seeks exception to Texas’ “employment-at-will” doctrine.
The "transgender mandate" required doctors to insure and perform abortions and gender modifications or face penalties.
A judge issued a temporary restraining order against Abbott, letting San Antonio and Bexar County issue mask mandates.
In a win for state GOP leaders, the Supreme Court of Texas stayed the restraining order that an Austin judge gave to absent Democrats.
The order stopped shy of letting mother Anne Georgulas consent to procedures that would physically change the child's sex.
Abbott justified his order as a COVID-19 prevention measure. Now, the DOJ argues it will worsen the spread.
UT successfully argued that the lawsuit was simply a "repackaged" claim that the Supreme Court had already decided.
Whole Woman's Health and fellow plaintiffs accused the Texas legislature of “well-documented hostility to the rights of pregnant people.”
