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Legal Scholars Amicus Brief

Amici are administrative law, constitutional law, and civil procedure scholars. The brief explains how S.B. 8’s enforcement scheme violates due process and sets a dangerous precedent that is already being copied to other areas of [...]

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Integrity of the Court Amicus Brief

Amici are professors writing in the areas of constitutional law, criminal law, and criminal procedure. The brief argues that allowing Texas to evade judicial review of a blatantly unconstitutional law would damage the Court’s legitimacy, [...]

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Firearms Policy Coalition Amicus Brief

Amicus is the Firearms Policy Coalition, a nonprofit membership organization that promotes individual liberties, including the right to keep and bear arms and the freedom of speech. The brief argues that this case is important [...]

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Constitutional Scholars Amicus Brief

Amici are constitutional law scholars writing in support of the United States. Amici argue that Texas’s transparent scheme to evade judicial review of S.B. 8 represents an exceptional circumstance that the United States has standing [...]

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Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Civil Rights, and Civil Procedure Scholars Amicus Brief

Amici are law professors whose scholarship focuses on constitutional law, federal courts, civil rights, and civil procedure. The brief recounts the history of Congress’s enactment of Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act in response [...]

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Constitutional Accountability Center Amicus Briefs

Amicus is the Constitutional Accountability Center, a think tank, public interest law firm, and action center dedicated to fulfilling the progressive promise of the Constitution’s text and history. Writing in support of providers and advocates [...]

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American Bar Association Amicus Brief

Amicus is the American Bar Association, the largest voluntary association of attorneys and legal professionals in the world. The brief argues in support of the United States that the federal government’s enforcement of constitutional rights [...]

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Texas Medical Association Amicus Brief

Amicus is the Texas Medical Association, the nation’s largest and one of the oldest state medical societies representing the voices of more than 55,000 physicians and medical student members. The brief argues that if S.B. [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

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Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Texas and Neighboring States Amicus Brief

Amici are Planned Parenthood affiliates who provide comprehensive reproductive health care in Texas and nearby States. Through dozens of first-hand accounts from patients and clinic staff obstructed by S.B.8, this brief conveys the dire circumstances [...]

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Leading Medical Organizations Amicus Brief

Amici are the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Medical Association, and 17 other leading national medical societies and associations committed to the provision of safe, quality reproductive healthcare, including abortion.  Amici argue that the Texas abortion [...]

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State Attorneys General Amicus Brief

Amici are more than 20 state attorneys general. Amici argue that the Texas abortion ban is unconstitutional, disregards the Court’s precedent and represents an attack on the rule of law. The brief demonstrates that the [...]

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Local Governments Amicus Brief

Amici are local governments, both within and outside of Texas, that support a pregnant person’s constitutional right to abortion. The brief argues that the Constitution does not permit Texas to deputize individual enforcement that will [...]

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Current and Former Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Leaders Amicus Brief

Amici are 128 current and former prosecutors and law enforcement leaders, and former state attorneys general, federal and state court judges, U.S. attorneys, and U.S. Department of Justice Officials. The brief argues that the Texas [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts,Case Document

Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.