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