Uber and Lyft CEOs come out and say they will cover 100% of the legal fees for any driver
sued under the new Texas law.
Lyft also donated a million bucks to a fund that'll be used to fight back against the law.
Floodgates have opened. Watch for a shitload of other companies to follow.
This will help negate the 'bounty' aspect of this crazy legislation.
This is flipping insane: Under the new law, ANY citizen can sue ANY other citizen
if they suspect they aided ANY woman in any way with an abortion.
A case that goes to court and gets won nets the snitch/rat $10,000.
Every fucking hooker and junkie on the street is going to try to get in on this.
Con artists, vengeful family members, holier than thou bible thumpers, nosy
neighbors, et. al., will be trying to get in on it too.
Dissenting opinion from the Supreme Court
The Texas legislature was well aware of this binding precedent. To circumvent it, the legislature took the extraordinary step of enlisting private citizens to do what the state could not. The act authorizes any private citizen to file a lawsuit against any person who provides an abortion in violation of the act, “aids or abets” such an abortion (including by paying for it) regardless of whether they know the abortion is prohibited under the act, or even intends to engage in such conduct.
Courts are required to enjoin the defendant from engaging in these actions in the future and to award the private-citizen plaintiff at least $10,000 in “statutory damages” for each forbidden abortion performed or aided by the defendant. In effect, the Texas legislature has deputized the state’s citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors’ medical procedures.
What ever happened to Texas being all about a citizen's personal rights?
Such BS.