April 03, 2023
A Texas federal judge sided with the Lone Star State and tossed a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule that conditioned federal funding for Head Start programs on COVID-19 vaccine mandates, finding the department exceeded its authority and violated rulemaking procedures.
May 13, 2022
Texas established itself as a consistent adversary of the federal government's control over public health protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic and flexed its muscles on the homefront by actively fighting local government measures it said were overreaches. With the country hitting a somber milestone of 1 million COVID-19 deaths, Law360 looks back at Texas' multifaceted public health litigation.