United States v. Texas

P R E L I M I N A R Y P R I N T
Volume 595 U. S. Part 1
Pages 74–76
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December 10, 2021
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74 OCTOBER
TERM, 2021
Syllabus
UNITED STATES v. TEXAS et al.
certiorari
to the united states court of appeals for
the fth circuit
No. 21–588 (21A85). Argued November 1, 2021—Decided December 10,
2021
Certiorari dismissed.
Solicitor General Prelogar argued the cause for the
United States. With her on the briefs were Acting Solici-
tor General Fletcher, Acting Assistant Attorney General
Boynton, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Deputy As-
sistant Attorney General Harrington, Erica L. Ross, Mark
R. Freeman, Michael S. Raab, and Daniel Winik.
Judd E. Stone II, Solicitor General of Texas, argued the
cause for the state respondent. With him on the briefs were
Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, Brent Webster,
First Assistant Attorney General, Lanora C. Pettit, Princi-
pal Deputy Solicitor General, Beth Klusmann and Natalie
D. Thompson, Assistant Solicitors General, and William T.
Thompson.
Jonathan F. Mitchell argued the cause for private re-
spondents. With him on the briefs were D. Bryan Hughes
and Heather Gebelin Hacker.*
*Briefs of amici curiae urging affrmance were fled for the American
Center for Law and Justice by Jay Alan Sekulow, Stuart J. Roth, Colby
M. May, Jordan A. Sekulow, Laura B. Hernandez, Andrew J. Ekonomou,
Cecilia Noland-Heil, and Walter M. Weber; for the Becket Fund for Reli-
gious Liberty by Mark L. Rienzi; for the Life Legal Defense Foundation
by Catherine W. Short; and for 410 Texas Women Injured by Abor-
tion et al. by Allan E. Parker, R. Clayton Trotter, and Mary J. Browning.
A brief of amici curiae urging vacatur was fled for Leading Medical Or-
ganizations by Shannon Rose Selden, Anna A. Moody, and Shiri A.
Hickman.
Briefs of amici curiae were fled for the State of Indiana et al. by Theo-
dore E. Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, Thomas M. Fisher, Solicitor
General, Kian J. Hudson, Deputy Solicitor General, and Julia C. Payne
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Cite
as: 595 U. S. 74 (2021)
75
Per Curiam
Per Curiam.
T
he wr it of cer ti orar i is dismissed as i mprov idently
granted. The application to vacate stay presented to Jus-
tice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied.
It is so ordered.
and Melinda R. Holmes, Deputy Attorneys General, and by the Attorneys
General for their respective States as follows: Steve Marshall of Alabama,
Mark Brnovich of Arizona, Leslie Rutledge of Arkansas, Ashley Moody
of Florida, Christopher M. Carr of Georgia, Lawrence G. Wasden of Idaho,
Derek Schmidt of Kansas, Daniel Cameron of Kentucky, Jeff Landry of
Louisiana, Lynn Fitch of Mississippi, Eric Schmitt of Missouri, Austin
Knudsen of Montana, Doug Peterson of Nebraska, Dave Yost of Ohio, John
M. O'Connor of Oklahoma, Alan Wilson of South Carolina, Jason R. Rav-
nsborg of South Dakota, Sean D. Reyes of Utah, and Patrick Morrisey of
West Virginia; for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al. by Maura
Healey, Attorney General of Massachusetts, Elizabeth N. Dewar, State
Solicitor, and Amanda Hainsworth, Assistant Attorney General, by An-
drew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, and by the Attor-
neys General for their respective jurisdictions as follows: Rob Bonta of
California, Philip J. Weiser of Colorado, William Tong of Connecticut,
Kathleen Jennings of Delaware, Karl A. Racine of the District of Colum-
bia, Clare E. Connors of Hawaii, Kwame Raoul of Illinois, Aaron M. Frey
of Maine, Brian E. Frosh of Maryland, Dana Nessel of Michigan, Keith
Ellison of Minnesota, Aaron D. Ford of Nevada, Hector Balderas of New
Mexico, Letitia James of New York, Joshua H. Stein of North Carolina,
Ellen F. Rosenblum of Oregon, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Peter F.
Neronha of Rhode Island, Thomas J. Donovan, Jr., of Vermont, Mark R.
Herring of Virginia, Robert W. Ferguson of Washington, and Joshua L.
Kaul of Wisconsin; for the American Bar Association by Reginald M.
Turner; for the Blanca Telephone Co. by Timothy E. Welch; for the Consti-
tutional Accountability Center by Elizabeth B. Wydra, Brianne J. Gorod,
and David H. Gans; for Legal Scholars Professor Blake Emerson et al. by
Alison B. Miller and Benjamin F. Heidlage; for Legal Scholars Leah Lit-
man et al. by Sonya D. Winner; for Local Governments by Jonathan B.
Miller, Meghan L. Riley, Esteban A. Aguilar, Jr., Jessica M. Scheller,
Kristin M. Bronson, Arturo G. Michel, Michael N. Feuer, Rodrigo A.
Castro-Silva, Barbara J. Parker, Diana P. Cortes, Lyndsey M. Olson,
Dennis J. Herrera, James R. Williams, Joseph Lawrence, and Peter S.
Holmes; for Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Serv-
ices et al. by Alan E. Schoen feld, Diana O. Salgado, Carrie Y. Flaxman,

76 UNITED
STATES v. TEXAS
Per Curiam
Justice Sotomayor would grant the application to va-
cate
stay in No. 21A85 and dissents from the dismissal of
No. 21–588 as improvidently granted.
and Jennifer Sandman; for the Texas Medical Association by Donald
P. Wilcox, Kelly M. Walla, and Laura J. Thetford; for David Boyle by
Mr. Boyle, pro se; and for 128 Current and Former Prosecutors et al. by
John P. Mastando III and David Weiss.
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Reporter’s Note
The attached opinion has been revised to refect the usual publication
and citation style of the United States Reports. The revised pagination
makes available the offcial United States Reports citation in advance of
publication. The syllabus has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions
for the convenience of the reader and constitutes no part of the opinion of
the Court. A list of counsel who argued or fled briefs in this case, and
who were members of the bar of this Court at the time this case was
argued, has been inserted following the syllabus. Other revisions may
include adjustments to formatting, captions, citation form, and any errant
punctuation. The following additional edits were made:
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