Overview
- A three-judge panel of the Texas Fifteenth Court of Appeals reversed the temporary injunction on Thursday and remanded the civil case to the trial court for further proceedings.
- The court said the Waller County judge improperly admitted probable‑cause affidavits from Rojas’s separate criminal case and found that, without those affidavits, the remaining evidence did not support shutting the clinics.
- The ruling applies only to the temporary civil injunction and does not dismiss the state's lawsuit or end the criminal prosecution; a Waller County grand jury reindicted Maria Rojas on 22 counts in June.
- Rojas’s clinics have been closed since the 2025 injunction, she remains under electronic monitoring with a suspended midwifery license, and attorneys say lost leases and records will make reopening unlikely and leave low-income, primarily Spanish-speaking patients without their provider.
- The decision highlights limits on using criminal probable‑cause affidavits in civil injunctive hearings and could prompt the attorney general to seek further review as both civil and criminal cases continue.