A New York judge dismissed a legal challenge Friday from Texas seeking to enforce a more than $100,000 civil judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman in an early test of the state’s “shield law” designed to protect providers.
Republican Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton wanted a New York court to enforce a civil decision from Texas against Dr. Margaret Carpenter, who practices north of New York City in Ulster County, for allegedly prescribing abortion medication via telemedicine.
But acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck refused to file the judgment, saying he was a government employee who had to comply with New York’s shield law, which protects providers from other states’ reach.
Always nice to see the justice system do something correctly.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Texas moves to give a cut of the civil judgement to bounty hunters, and this and future doctors end up kidnapped.
It’s wild that I can’t even dismiss the possibility of this happening. Donald still has three years to speed-run fascism and zero meaningful Democratic opposition to stop him.
There’s also no opposition from the supreme Court so it’s more likely and more effective for Texas to go there instead to force the issue
Time to start arming NY healthcare workers.
