09-01-2021, 02:44 PM
pdq wrote:
Speedy, you stopped too soon…
The patient may not be sued, but doctors, staff members at clinics, counselors, people who help pay for the procedure, even an Uber driver taking a patient to an abortion clinic are all potential defendants. Plaintiffs, who need not have any connection to the matter or show any injury from it, are entitled to $10,000 and their legal fees recovered if they win. Prevailing defendants are not entitled to legal fees.
This legal structure in itself is a disaster waiting to happen. I hope the inevitable injunction comes soon.
ACLU will keep fighting against this absurd law even though the Court just ignored their request for an emergency injunction.
I hope a district court will strike it down, or maybe it will get rolled up in a bigger decision coming from the court about these crazy state laws. Or both.
I think there was a thread on this earlier, but how does a completely unrelated party have grounds to sue?