Lots of media on this, here's the huffpost link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Some counties in Texas have refused to accept Mexican IDs of parents as valid documentation in their hospitals for issuing birth certificates. The State argument is that the IDs are easy to fake so we must stop terrorism or some other bullshit. The real reason is ugly racism. The immediate effect is that the county health workers have refused to issue birth certificates to children of immigrants. Anti-immigrant politicians call these children "anchor babies" but the correct label is "US citizens".
Families who couldn't get birth certificates for their children - which are helpful in getting them enrolled in schools, legally reentering the US or getting baptisms by the church - sued and drew District Court Judge Robert Pitman. Judge Pitman was an Obama appointee and, according to wikipedia, the only openly gay judge in the entire 5th judicial district. Unfortunately, Judge Pitman declined to grant a preliminary injunction against the state and, until the case is finished, these US citizens will continue to be treated as second class citizens. I would guess that the families ultimately win but that they couldn't get an injunction at this point (and there may have been some bad lawyering that let changing stories get to the judge to make the plaintiffs look worse) is a bad sign. Pitman is probably one of the better judges they could have drawn in the district and the 5th circuit court of appeals will probably hear the appeal, eventually.
This is a big attack on immigrants and Latino citizens and something that right wing media is pretty happy about. I would expect that right wing crazies will attempt to attack Pyler v Doe as well. It would be good if the democrats would stand up against this but, so far, there hasn't been much discussion of this on the left.