Here is a link to a story in Bloomberg about the latest developments in the Texas Hearbeat case. The US Supreme Court, which refused a request to enjoin the law pending the challenges to the constitutionality of the statute, suggested that Texas licensing authorities might be proper defendants in the suits challenging the constitutionality of the Texas law. The US Supreme Court did not definitively settle that issue and today’s oral arguments considered whether the 5th Circuit ought to ask the Texas Supreme Court to weigh in on that issue of Texas law.