Whole Woman's Health et al v. Smith

  1. September 05, 2018

    Texas Can't Enforce New Law Over Fetal Remains Disposal

    A federal judge in Texas issued an injunction on Wednesday blocking Texas from implementing a new law that would require health care providers to bury or cremate fetal remains, holding it violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment.

  2. July 20, 2018

    Trial Wraps In Suit Over Texas Fetal Remains Disposal Rule

    The fight over a proposed law in Texas that would require health care providers to bury or cremate fetal remains moved forward Friday as the trial for a suit challenging the law concluded in federal court.

  3. July 18, 2018

    Texas Catholic Group Need Not Reveal Docs, 5th Circ. Says

    The Fifth Circuit has quashed discovery of a Texas religious group's internal documents in a suit over a proposed abortion law, ruling the trial court abused its discretion, put an undue burden on the group and could have created a chilling effect by demanding the documents.

  4. January 29, 2018

    Texas Fetal Tissue Disposal Rule Temporarily Blocked

    A Texas federal judge Monday granted pro-choice advocates a preliminary injunction in their challenge of a rule requiring Texas health care facilities to bury or cremate fetal tissue from abortions, finding that they presented a reasonable case that the rule may be found unconstitutionally vague.

  5. January 27, 2017

    Texas Fetal Tissue Disposal Rule Blocked Until Further Notice

    A rule requiring Texas health care facilities to bury or cremate fetal tissue from abortions is temporarily blocked until the court says otherwise, a Texas federal judge said Friday in an order that granted a request for a preliminary injunction and cast doubt on the state's underlying motivations.

  6. December 16, 2016

    Texas Fetal Disposal Rule Change Halted Until January

    New Texas rules requiring fetal tissue to be buried or cremated instead of disposed like other medical waste can't take effect until January under a temporary restraining order entered Thursday by a Texas federal judge.

  7. December 12, 2016

    Clinics Sue To Block Texas Rule Requiring Fetal Burials

    Texas women's clinics on Monday sued to block a state rule requiring fetal tissue be buried or cremated instead of disposed like other medical waste, claiming it infringes patients' rights to seek pregnancy-related medical care without undue interference from government.