{"id":30073,"date":"2025-10-31T22:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30073\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:31:11","slug":"new-york-judge-dismisses-texas-legal-challenge-over-abortion-pill-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30073\/","title":{"rendered":"New York judge dismisses Texas legal challenge over abortion pill case"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New York judge dismissed a legal challenge Friday from Texas seeking to enforce a more than $100,000 civil judgment<\/a> against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman in an early test of the state\u2019s \u201cshield law\u201d designed to protect providers.<\/p>\n

Republican Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton wanted a New York court to enforce a civil decision from Texas against Dr. Margaret Carpenter, who practices north of New York City in Ulster County, for allegedly prescribing abortion medication via telemedicine. <\/p>\n

But acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck refused<\/a> to file the judgment, saying he was a government employee who had to comply with New York\u2019s shield law, which protects providers from other states\u2019 reach.<\/p>\n

New York is among at least eight states with shield laws<\/a>. Opponents of the laws argue they violate a constitutional requirement that states respect the laws and legal judgments of other states.<\/p>\n

Justice David Gandin ruled that Bruck followed New York law and granted his motion to dismiss the petition from Texas. The judge, sitting in Kingston, wrote that the medical services Carpenter rendered are legal in New York and that they fall \u201csquarely within the definition of \u2018legally protected health activity\u2019\u201d under the state\u2019s shield law.<\/p>\n

Bruck said he was relieved. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt seemed very clear to me that as a government employee I should not be complying with this,\u201d he said. \u201cSince there was no precedent for the shield law yet, it feels really good to set that precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not clear if the trial court judge\u2019s ruling would be appealed. An email seeking comment was set to Paxton\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

A Texas judge in February ordered Carpenter to pay more than $100,000 in penalties for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas after she failed to appear in court. The judge also issued an injunction barring Carpenter from prescribing abortion medication to Texas residents. <\/p>\n

The ruling in Texas was handed down on the same day New York Gov. Kathy Hochul rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite Carpenter, who was charged in that state with prescribing abortion pills<\/a> to a pregnant minor.<\/p>\n

Gandin also denied a motion from Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James to intervene in the case, which could have escalated the interstate court battle. The judge said her intervention was not warranted because the constitutionality of New York\u2019s shield law was not at issue in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York judge dismissed a legal challenge Friday from Texas seeking to enforce a more than $100,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4970,815,20219,490,20217,1967,9850,20218,20216,188,7714,20168,27,29,28,5577,1760,1499],"class_list":["post-30073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-abortion","tag-courts","tag-david-gandin","tag-general-news","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-ken-paxton","tag-lawsuits","tag-letitia-james","tag-margaret-carpenter","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-taylor-bruck","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-state-government","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}