TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Sep 21, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court has set a date to hear a Mississippi case that could pose a serious challenge to Roe v. Wade, NPR reports. Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization tests whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. The high court agreed to hear the case earlier this year and yesterday set the date for Dec. 1. The scheduling announcement comes weeks after the court declined to intervene in a new Texas law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected and awards private citizens $10,000 for successfully suing anyone receiving, performing or helping facilitate an abortion. According to the Associated Press, the first lawsuits under Texas’ new law have been filed against Dr. Alan Braid, who last week publicly revealed that he had defied the law. He is being sued by two former lawyers from Arkansas and Illinois.