Ian Lopez reports:
A federal judge in Texas shot down a request from two liberal cities and a physician group to defend a Biden administration abortion rule in a lawsuit should the Trump administration drop out of the case.
Doctors for America and the cities of Madison, Wis., and Columbus, Ohio, “fail to demonstrate a protectable interest and the inadequacy of current parties,” Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk wrote in his Tuesday order denying the motion to intervene.
DFA and the cities were trying to intervene in Carmen Purl’s US District Court for the Northern District of Texas lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services over a 2024 rule applying Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy protections to abortion and other reproductive services’ records.
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