Sept. 8 (UPI) -- New York's Attorney General Letitia James intervened on Monday in a Texas-filed lawsuit against a county clerk likely to be the first constitutional litmus test on abortion laws related to telemedicine.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the acting clerk of New York's Ulster County, Taylor Bruck, in July over Bruck's apparent refusal on multiple occasions to file a court summons and summary judgment for a doctor in the Empire State who allegedly sent abortion medication last year to a female patient in Texas.
"I am stepping in to defend the integrity of our courts against this blatant overreach," James said in a statement.
Bruck twice refused to enforce Paxton's lawsuit, citing New York's telemedicine abortion shield law, after Paxton sued New York doctor Margaret Carpenter and a Texas judge ordered her to pay $113,000 in legal penalties.
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