HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A Texas appeals court chief justice says a nearly 60-year-old legal precedent forced the court to overturn an injunction against a Houston-area midwife at the center of a closely watched test of Texas' abortion laws.

In a concurring opinion filed on Thursday, Chief Justice Scott Brister of the Fifteenth Court of Appeals said the problem is one "only the Texas Supreme Court can correct." Last month, the appeals court reversed a temporary injunction against Maria Margarita Rojas and several clinics, including Clinica Latinoamericana and Houston BirthHouse.

Rojas made national headlines in March 2025 when she became the first person criminally charged under Texas' near-total abortion ban that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.