Overview

• Attorney General Letitia James notified the Ulster County court that she is joining the case and will file written arguments by September 19.
• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking to enforce a Collin County order that bars Dr. Margaret Carpenter from prescribing to Texans and imposes more than $113,000 in penalties.
• Acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck twice refused to file the Texas judgment under New York’s 2023 shield law, leading Paxton to sue the clerk and argue the law violates the Constitution’s Full Faith and Credit clause.
• Twenty-two states and Washington, D.C., have some form of abortion shield protections, and eight states, including New York, have laws that explicitly cover telemedicine prescribing to out-of-state patients.
• Related disputes include a Louisiana indictment of Carpenter and New York’s refusal to extradite her, while Texas lawmakers have advanced a bill enabling private suits over abortion drugs and the governor has not yet acted on it.