A New York county clerk declined to enforce Texas’ civil judgment against a doctor who prescribed abortion pills to a patient via telehealth, escalating an interstate legal battle that is expected to end up before the Supreme Court.

A New York county clerk on Thursday blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to take legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion pills to a Texas patient. The escalating dispute between Texas and New York over the Empire state’s so-called shield law,

A New York county clerk refused to process a $113,000 fine against a New York doctor found guilty of prescribing abortion-inducing medications in Texas.