Although Friday’s U.S. Supreme court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization marked the end of Roe v. Wade as the law of the land, it sparked a widespread, state-level legal fight over access to abortion.

As my Law.com colleagues reported yesterday, a team led by Boies Schiller Flexner partner Joanna Wright landed what appears to be the first win for abortion rights advocates in that post-Dobbs wave in Louisiana. A judge in New Orleans granted a temporary restraining order blocking the state’s so-called “trigger laws,” designed to make abortion illegal in Louisiana immediately upon the reversal of Roe, at least until a hearing on the matter set for next month.

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