The suits could be 'vehicles' for a constitutional test of Texas' abortion ban.
"In some ways the identity of these first plaintiffs highlights the absurdity of the law," said Kate Shaw, Cardozo School of Law professor and ABC News legal contributor.
"The statute says that anybody can file a suit. That doesn't mean that there's not some state constitutional limitation on who could file a suit," said Irving Gornstein, executive director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown Law Center,"but this person seems to be somebody who has no objection to abortions, he just wants to earn a bounty."
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