(2003-06-20) — A Federal Court in Texas ruled today that it’s too late to review the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
“This court reserves the right to choose which cases it will accept and which ones it will reject,” Judge David Godbey wrote in the ruling. “The Federal District Court in Dallas is our judicial body, and we will make those choices ourselves.”
The court, in choosing not to hear Norma McCorvey’s request to overturn the abortion ruling, said “you can vacate a court decision in the early weeks or months, but after a certain point it takes on a life of its own and becomes established law.”
The court refused, however, to weigh in on the question of exactly when a ruling becomes law. But many legal scholars agree that it’s some time during the first trimester after the decision is conceived by the Supreme Court.

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