To summarize: •In 2015, guerrilla video purports to show PP trading in fetal tissue •Texas declares end of Medicaid reimbursement for *any* PP services •PP sues➡️years of litigation •PP’s Tx. Medicaid contract ends in 2021 •Current suit alleges 2015–21 PP reimbursements were *fraud*
New: Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, the judge who suspended approval of the abortion pill, in a now-sealed opinion held Planned Parenthood must face a trial in Texas' $1.8 billion lawsuit accusing it of defrauding Medicaid.
Planned Parenthood must face a trial in a $1.8 billion lawsuit by Texas accusing the organization of defrauding the Republican-led state's Medicaid health insurance program, a federal judge ruled on M...
so I realize there's an asymmetry here because everything ultimately goes to SCOTUS, but is there no liberal circuit judge somewhere willing to churn out equally outrageous rulings? Let PP know through back channels that if they sue Texas he'll award $12 trillion in harassment damages or something
so to be absolutely clear, besides all the other stuff, the situation is: PP had a contract with Texas during litigation over Texas's attempt to terminate it, PP continued to perform in accord with the contract Judge K has ruled PP has to refund all the money they got paid for doing work they did?
Bc of Texas fed. judge assignment rules, any litigant who can scrounge together a bare argument for personal jurisdiction & venue can guarantee they’ll get Judge K Judge K, in turn, argues his court is under threat and places everything including litigants’ identities under seal Soviet-level sh t