Overview
- Ulster County Justice David Gandin ruled the county clerk acted lawfully in refusing to file the Texas judgment under Executive Law § 837‑X.
- The court found Dr. Margaret Carpenter’s telemedicine prescriptions are lawful in New York and qualify as legally protected health activity.
- Texas sought to enforce a February order exceeding $100,000 that also barred Carpenter from sending abortion medication to Texas residents.
- Gandin denied New York Attorney General Letitia James’s request to intervene, finding the statute’s constitutionality was not before the court.
- The case serves as an early test of state shield laws that limit cooperation with out-of-state abortion enforcement, and no appeal was announced.