A requirement that civil litigants in a state district court in Montgomery County use LexisNexis for court filings violates the U.S. and Texas constitutions, a woman alleges in a class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston.

Karen McPeters, the plaintiff for the proposed class action, filed McPeters v. Edwards, et al. on April 6. The original complaint names as defendants 9th District Court Judge Frederick Edwards, Montgomery County, District Clerk Barbara Adamick, and Reed Elsevier, an English-Dutch conglomerate doing business as LexisNexis.

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