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'Transparent Attack on Constitutional Rights': Big Law Gets In on Texas Abortion Court Fight | Texas Lawyer - Law.com

Demonstrators for and against abortion rights demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the day of arguments in the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case on March 2, 2016. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

What You Need to Know

  • Debevoise & Plimpton filed a brief on behalf of top medical groups, saying the Texas law "violates the core principles governing the practice of medicine."
  • Covington & Burling also filed a brief for legal scholars, in favor of the U.S.'s ability to sue Texas over the law.
  • The case is currently before the Fifth Circuit, which stayed a district judge's injunction against the law.

Amicus briefs are landing in the legal battle between the Department of Justice and Texas over the state’s abortion law, some of them filed by attorneys at Big Law firms.

The lawsuit, filed last month by the Justice Department, is now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit after U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas last week blocked the law. A panel of appellate judges on Oct. 8 granted an administrative stay against the preliminary injunction, meaning the law—which has effectively halted abortions in Texas for pregnancies in which a fetal heartbeat is detected—is now back in place.

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