A judge in New Orleans, Louisiana, did not extend a temporary restraining order that blocked enforcement of the state’s so-called “trigger” ban outlawing abortion in the state, which now joins Texas, Mississippi and Alabama in a stretch of the Deep South where abortion is illegal.
On 8 July, Civil District Judge Ethel Simms Julien dissolved the order as part of a procedural matter that will send the case to Baton Rouge. The judge determined that the legal challenge against the state’s laws must change venues, effectively dissolving the restraining order issued in New Orleans.
