Injunction Protecting Texas Resident from Anti-BDS Law Rejected

Texas is free from an injunction preventing it from enforcing a ban on boycotts against Israel against a Texas resident after the Fifth Circuit reversed a lower court ruling Monday.

The case was dismissed without prejudice because the plaintiff couldn’t prove that the attorney general’s office would enforce the anti-boycott, divestiture and sanctions law against the resident’s company, Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit wrote.

The controversy had drawn friend of the court briefs from state lawmakers, constitutional scholars including Cornell University law professor Michael Dorf, University of California at Los Angeles ...