Anytime you create a cause of action there, you could call anybody that has the right to go to court a bounty hunter, because they're going in there for damages, which means they're going in to get some type of payment. So you could say that about any cause of action created by any legislature, whether it was federal or state, it could be viewed that way, if you don’t like the actual law.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton on Texas Heartbeat Act: We Are Hopeful (November 6, 2021)
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