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Another Boston Judge Enters Ex Parte TRO Hours After Filing, Without Any Time To Actually Read Filings

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Today, Planned Parenthood challenged the constitutionality of the Big Beautiful Bill, which cuts funding for the organization. Planned Parenthood chose the District of Massachusetts. The Motion for a TRO was fifty-three pages long. According to press reports, the District Court granted the ex parte TRO within a few hours. (ECF should really start including time stamps, now that the Supreme Court has ruled constructive denials can be measured in minutes.)

Was this even enough time to read the entire brief? To consider it? To give it some thought? Or was this just a reflexive TRO that was granted because the Defendant is the Trump Administration? We saw a similar immediate TRO granted by another Federal District Court Judge in Boston who ruled in favor of Harvard, without any opportunity to actually review the pleadings. Then again, when the Supreme Court holds that District Courts are deemed to constructively deny TROs when they don’t rule in a few hours, lower courts take notice. There are no Denny’s in Boston. But for those curious, the one Denny’s in Lubbock is open 24×7.

You can tell the Judge in the Planned Parenthood case rushed. The order didn’t even address any of the usual factors. There was zero analysis whatsoever. I don’t see how this is a valid TRO. You need to at least gesture to the four factors.

Worse still, this was a TRO not of an executive action, but of an actual statute that passed bicameralism and presentment. And the judge ordered the executive branch to appropriate money that was expressly unappropriated.

Defendants, their agents, employees, appointees, successors, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants shall take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed in the customary manner and timeframes to Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its members; Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts; and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah.

This is basically an administrative stay of an appropriations statute!

It is not even clear the court’s equitable powers supports such a remedy.

Lower court judges are misbehaving. The Supreme Court sent a clear signal on universal injunctions. I think a similar message needs to be sent about ex parte TROs. You should at least take enough time to “pretend” to read the complaint.

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Source: https://reason.com/volokh/2025/07/07/another-boston-judge-enters-ex-parte-tro-hours-after-filing-without-any-time-to-actually-read-filings/


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