The high court sent the law back to the Texas Supreme Court, which ruled March 11, 2022, that abortion providers cannot challenge the state over enforcement of a law that allows private citizens to sue providers.
Texas Supreme Court rules against challenge to abortion law
Supreme Court sends Texas abortion case to federal appeals court
Less than a week after the Supreme Court ruled that the Texas abortion law could stay in place, the court sent back a lawsuit against the state’s abortion law to a federal appeals court, not to the District Court judge who had tried to block the law.