Politics
Uber, Lyft Offer To Pay Their Drivers’ Legal Fees If They’re Sued Under Texas’ New Abortion Law
Posted on · Under Texas's new abortion law anyone can be sued if they aid a person who is trying to get an abortion in violation of the law.
Tag: abortion law
News
Supreme Court Revisits Abortion With Louisiana Case
Posted on · At issue is a Louisiana law that mirrors a Texas law the court struck down. What's different, however, is that Justice Anthony Kennedy, who cast the decisive fifth vote in the 2016 case, has retired.
Houston Matters
Full Show: Home Repair After Harvey, And What’s Next In The Abortion Wars (Sept. 7, 2017)
Posted on · On Thursday's Houston Matters: We get advice for flooded homeowners on home inspection and repair. And we learn about the latest Texas abortion regulation and discuss what the state might try to enact next.
Good, Bad and Ugly
Abortion Ruling and Law Schools to Face Off in Court: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Houston News
Posted on · A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week's news, we turn to our rotating panel of "non-experts" to parse The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of it all. This week, our panel debates: the […]
Houston Matters
Supreme Court Strikes Down Two Provisions of Texas Abortion Law
Posted on · The US Supreme Court this morning (June 27, 2016), in a 5-3 ruling, struck down two provisions of a Texas law regulating abortion: one requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admissions privileges within 30 miles; the other requiring clinics that provide abortions to meet the standards of outpatient surgical centers. The state argued […]
Good, Bad and Ugly
Election Oddities and 59 Diner Closes: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Houston News
Posted on · A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week's news, we turn to our rotating panel of "non-experts" to parse The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of it all. This week we discuss: some oddities […]
Houston Matters
How the Fifth Circuit Became the Nation’s Most Right-Leaning Appellate Court
Posted on · Until a new justice is named and confirmed to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, any rulings resulting in a 4-4 tie among the current justices will lead to the lower court ruling being upheld, without a precedent set. When it comes to cases involving the state of Texas, that lower […]
Houston Matters
What’s Next in the Battle Over the Texas Abortion Law?
Posted on · Abortion rights supporters and opponents in Texas are awaiting a ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in an ongoing legal battle over an abortion law Texas legislators passed last year. The law, as written, requires (among other provisions) that all clinics providing abortions in Texas meet the same standards as hospital-style surgical centers. […]