STATEWIDE — TEXAS MAY NOT VIOLATE NEW YORK’S SHIELD LAW, says New York Attorney General Letitia James, who on Monday, Sept. 8, intervened in a lawsuit that her counterpart in Texas initiated . Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of New York’s shield law, seeks judgement against a New York doctor who provided safe, legal telehealth abortion care. Paxton filed his lawsuit against a New York county clerk after his office was blocked from filing papers to collect a $113,000 judgment from the doctor. James will argue in court documents that New York has the legal right and responsibility to safeguard its residents, its providers and its courts from out-of-state overreach, and that Texas cannot commandeer New York’s courts to enforce its own puniti

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