Category: Judicial

Editor’s note. Yesterday the North Dakota Supreme Court  rejected Attorney General Drew Wrigley’s request to remove a preliminary injunction that prevented the state’s trigger law from taking effect. In 2007, North Dakota lawmakers passed a bill protecting unborn children from abortion in the state within 30 days if the Supreme Court were to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. …

By Dave Andrusko After more than four hours of oral arguments, Judge, Matthew J. Kacsmaryk said he would rule “as soon as possible” whether to grant the plaintiff’s request to issue a preliminary injunction ordering the FDA to withdraw its approval of mifepristone or to withdraw the drug completely while the case proceeds through trial. Covering …

By Dave Andrusko The North Dakota Supreme Court this morning rejected Attorney General Drew Wrigley’s request to remove a preliminary injunction that prevented the state’s trigger law from taking effect. In 2007, North Dakota lawmakers passed a bill protecting unborn children from abortion in the state within 30 days if the Supreme Court were to overturn the landmark …

By Kim Schwartz, Texas Right to Life A pro-abortion group, the Center for Reproductive Rights, sued the State of Texas on Tuesday asking the court to weaken its laws protecting preborn children using the stories of five women.  Pro-Life policies already plainly allow doctors to intervene if the life of the mother is in danger, however the …

By Dave Andrusko A divided Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would hear the state’s appeal of Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins’ injunction blocking the state’s heartbeat law. The court, at this juncture, will not review whether the Ohio Constitution creates a right to abortion. The Ohio Supreme Court said “it will address two …

By Nancy Flanders A Texas man has filed a civil lawsuit against three friends of his former wife, alleging that they aided her in undergoing an abortion in violation of state law. The women have not been criminally charged. Marcus Silva filed a wrongful death suit as well as a conspiracy suit in Galveston County on Thursday against the three women. …

By Dave Andrusko One could only imagine the attitude of the usual pro-abortion newspapers—The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Texas Tribune—if a judge they liked asked the parties involved in a an abortion case not to tell the world of the timing of their first appearance in court. But if they disapprove—as they most certainly do of U.S. …

By Kim Schwartz, Texas Right to Life A pro-abortion group, the Center for Reproductive Rights, sued the State of Texas on Tuesday asking the court to weaken its laws protecting preborn children using the stories of five women.  Pro-Life policies already plainly allow doctors to intervene if the life of the mother is in danger, however the …

By Dave Andrusko It took nearly seven years, but U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle reinstated Florida’s House Bill 1411 which blocked state funds from going to Planned Parenthood and other organizations that perform abortions. Planned Parenthood said in its 2016 challenge to HB1411 that it stood to lose $500,000 a year. In its motion to dismiss the permanent …

By Kim Schwartz, Texas Right to Life Pro-Life advocate Mark Lee Dickson has emerged victorious as the Supreme Court of Texas dismissed the frivolous lawsuit against him by abortion groups. The Lilith Fund and The Afiya Center sued Dickson and Right to Life of East Texas for defamation because he said they “exist to help …

By Nancy Flanders  A judge in Miami has denied a request to temporarily block Florida’s law protecting most children from abortion after 15 weeks. HB 5, or the Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality bill, was passed by pro-life legislators in Florida in July. Despite this, abortions in the state increased in 2022. The ruling comes after seven clergy …

By Dave Andrusko A three judge panel of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday in favor of the pro-life Evergreen Association, which operates the Expectant Mother Care and EMC FrontLine Pregnancy Centers in New York City, in an important freedom of expressive association case. U.S. District Judge Thomas McAvoy Sr. dismissed the case …