Texas v. Bruck
New York trial court dismissed Texas’s petition seeking to order county clerk to accept its filing intended to begin the process of enforcing that state’s default judgment against a New York doctor, who allegedly sent abortion pills to a Texas woman. The court ruled that New York’s shield law bars the clerk from using or expending local government resources to further a proceeding seeking to impose liability against the doctor. On procedural grounds, the court did not reach Texas’s argument that the shield law violates the U.S. Constitution’s Full Faith and Credit Clause.
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New York Courts Should Reject Texas’s Attempt to Enforce its Abortion Ban Beyond its Borders
Precedent supports the refusal to enforce out-of-state civil judgments that punish an individual in the name of protecting the public.