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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Smith dismisses this appeal of the district court’s dismissal of the case. The Satanic Temple appealed the court’s denial of its motion for a temporary restraining order against several Texas abortion laws during litigation, and Texas’ health agency moved to dismiss the case, which the court granted. The Temple now says the district court did not have jurisdiction to dismiss. An appeal from a denial of a preliminary injunction does not divest the district court of jurisdiction or restrain it from other steps in the litigation. The court had the power to dismiss despite the pending appeal. To the extent that the Temple wants to litigate issues that were raised in the preliminary injunction motion and remain live, they may do so in their appeal from the district court’s final judgment.