Whole Woman's Health v. David Lakey

JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs1 filed this lawsuit seeking declaratory relief and permanent injunctions *289against the enforcement of two recent amendments to Texas’s laws pertaining to the performing of abortions. See 2013 Texas House Bill No. 2 (“H.B.2”).2 The lawsuit was filed in April 2014, and the district court conducted a four-day bench trial August 4-7, 2014. Three weeks later, at 4:39 p.m. on August 29, 2014, the last business day before the ambulatory surgical center provision would go into effect, the district court delivered its opinion and issued a final judgment…