The law had faced a challenge based on its alleged interference with federal authority over immigration, but the plaintiffs ultimately failed on procedural grounds.
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The challengers convinced the court that Texas likely had engaged in illegal racial gerrymandering at the request of the Trump administration.
These claims could result in substantial monetary awards, but attempts to enforce any judgments could collide with abortion shield laws in pro-choice states.
Intended to help Republicans keep control of the House, the gerrymandering effort has sparked litigation and a response from California, while other red and blue states could soon follow.
Texas soon could have the toughest law in the country on social media use by children, although legal challenges probably loom.
The settlement is believed to be the largest amount that any attorney general has recovered from Google for violations of state privacy laws.
The dispute may result in a challenge to the New York shield law, which provides some key protections to doctors who send abortion drugs to patients in states that have banned or severely restricted the procedure.
Booksellers, publishers, and writers sued Texas officials in federal court on Tuesday alleging a new book restriction law violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
Five women and two obstetrician-gynecologists sued Texas on Monday to clarify an exception to its near-total abortion ban that allows medical professionals to provide abortions in life-threatening emergencies.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has frequently taken Google to court over alleged violations of consumer privacy, voicing a wariness of major tech companies and their influence over American life.