 She was referred to lawyers Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, who filed a lawsuit on her behalf in U.S. federal court against her local district attorney, Henry Wade, alleging that Texas's abortion laws were unconstitutional.A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas heard the case and ruled in her favor.Texas then appealed this ruling directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case.