The Satanic Temple claimed that Texas abortion laws infringed on their “rituals,” but the judge dismissed the suit for being filed in “bad faith.”<\/p>\n
A federal judge in the Southern District of Texas has dismissed a lawsuit filed by The Satanic Temple (TST), calling their claims \u201cwillfully inadequate and deficient.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The lawsuit, filed on behalf of \u201cAnn Doe,\u201d stems from TST\u2019s\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0that Texas abortion laws are preventing its members from performing their abortion \u201crituals.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawyers on behalf of the complainant stated, \u201cThe abortion ritual requires an abortion; and affirms [Doe\u2019s] religious subscription to TST\u2019s Third and Fifth Tenets.\u201d<\/p>\n Judge Charles Eskridge in Houston saw the case differently.<\/p>\n Eskridge\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0the complaint \u201cspare and unusually cryptic\u201d and explained that TST did not give sufficient information on how Texas law had a direct effect on their \u201cbelief structure.\u201d<\/p>\n Providing numerous points of dissolution with TST\u2019s claims, Eskridge continued on to explain that the \u201csupposed \u2018religious statutes\u2019 aren\u2019t specified or explained in any way. Neither are \u2018the Seven Tenets\u2019 or \u2018the ritual.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The defendant in the case is Cecile Young, executive commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. She sought to dismiss this case, as she argued it lacked standing because the complaint failed to state a claim.<\/p>\n Young argued that the complaint should be dismissed also on the grounds of sovereign immunity, as it applies to state officials.<\/p>\n \u201cYoung argues that the third amended complaint is so devoid of explanation that Plaintiffs fail to demonstrate that any exception to sovereign immunity applies,\u201d Eskridge said. \u201cPlaintiffs don\u2019t respond to this argument in any meaningful way.\u201d<\/p>\n He went on to explain that it is not up to the court to \u201ctheorize what the best argument in this regard might be, or to imagine how they might be connected to facts that haven\u2019t been pleaded.\u201d<\/p>\n Eskridge continued this line of reasoning for the dismissal, stating that it is \u201cunknown\u201d how Young is involved in the enforcement of the complaint in the case at all. He asked in response, \u201cHow, when, why, and in what way did she apply them to Plaintiffs?\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at: thetexan.news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Satanic Temple claimed that Texas abortion laws infringed on their “rituals,” but the judge dismissed the suit for being filed in “bad faith.” A federal judge in the Southern District of Texas has dismissed a lawsuit filed by The Satanic Temple (TST), calling their claims \u201cwillfully inadequate and deficient.\u201d The lawsuit, filed on … Continue reading Federal Judge Dismisses The Satanic Temple\u2019s Lawsuit Challenging Texas Abortion Laws<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6lA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24403,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24402\/revisions\/24403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}