A Texas judge has temporarily shut down two Waller County clinics from providing medical services following the arrest of a midwife and two other clinic employees accused of performing illegal abortions.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/abortion/2025/03/20/516470/texas-judge-temporarily-shuts-down-houston-area-clinics-accused-of-providing-abortions/

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Texas judge temporarily shuts down Houston-area clinics accused of providing abortions

Judge Gary Chaney on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order preventing Maternal and Child Healthcare and Research Center, Clinicas Latinoamericanas and Houston Birth House from providing any medical services or abortions.

Houston Public Media

A Texas federal judge blocked guidelines the Biden administration issued three years ago intended to extend federal anti-discrimination protections to LGBTQ+ students.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/lgbtq/2024/06/17/490823/federal-judge-blocks-biden-administrations-title-ix-guidelines-to-protect-lgbtq-students/

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Federal judge blocks Biden administration’s Title IX guidelines to protect LGBTQ+ students

In his ruling Tuesday, Judge Reed O'Connor said the Biden administration lacked the authority to make the changes and accused it of pushing “an agenda wholly divorced from the text, structure, and contemporary context of Title IX.” Title IX is the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational settings.

Houston Public Media
Texas judge allows Kate Cox to abort fetus with lethal abnormality

Cox, 31, at 20 weeks pregnant, has learned her fetus has a lethal abnormality that is almost always fatal at birth.

The Texas Tribune

A Texas judge has declared unconstitutional a law championed by Gov. Greg Abbott that limits the power of Democrat-led cities

https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-judge-death-star-bill-greg-abbott-unconstitutional-2023-8

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Texas judge says Greg Abbott's 'Death Star' bill is unconstitutional

The law, dubbed "the law that kills," was so broad it prevented local ordinances that mandated things such as water breaks for construction workers.

Insider
Texas Judge Orders Airline Lawyers to Take Training From Far-Right Hate Group

The lawyers must take religious freedom classes from the Alliance Defending Freedom, the right-wing Christian group that has systematically rolled back civil liberties.

The New Republic
Texas Judge Refuses to Marry Same-Sex Couples, Cites Supreme Court Decision

She claims that the decision that allowed a Colorado web designer not to be forced to create a site contrary to her beliefs extends to her view that only heterosexual couples should be married.

Advocate.com

Texas judge says Supreme Court ruling means she doesn’t have to officiate same-sex weddings. She was reprimanded for only officiating straight people's marriages. Now she says the Supreme Court supports her.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/07/texas-judge-says-supreme-court-ruling-means-she-doesnt-have-to-officiate-same-sex-weddings/

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Texas judge says Supreme Court ruling means she doesn't have to officiate same-sex weddings - LGBTQ Nation

She was reprimanded for only officiating straight people's marriages. Now she says the Supreme Court supports her.

LGBTQ Nation

a wahsington state judge has apparently issued a dueling injunction that contradicts the one out of Texas invalidating the FDA on #mifepristone

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