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South Wind Women's Center LLC v. Stitt

5:20-cv-00277 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 8, 2020

This is a case challenging an Oklahoma executive order banning abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 30, 2020, South Wind Women's Center LLC, a health care facility providing reproductive care including abortions, a physician operating an abortion clinic in the state, and Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, Inc., filed this lawsuit, on behalf of themselves, their staff, and their patients, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.  The plai…
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Whole Woman's Health v. Smith

1:16-cv-01300 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2016

Case Ongoing

Whole Woman's Health and several other reproductive healthcare providers filed this lawsuit against the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on December 12, 2016. Plaintiffs were represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights as well as private counsel. The suit challenged proposed regulations published by the Texas Department of State Health Services. These proposed regulations would require embryonic and fetal tissue …
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Braid v. Stilley

1:21-cv-05283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Center for Reproductive Rights and private counsel filed this suit on October 5, 2021 on behalf of a physician who violated S.B. 8, the Texas law banning abortion care at approximately six weeks of pregnancy, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was an interpleader action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act and sought a declaration that S.B. 8 was unconstitutional. The case was assigned to Judge Jorge Alonso.  The interpleader action was brought …
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Hope Medical Group for Women v. LeBlanc

2:06-cv-09176 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2006

Closed Date: March 3, 2008

This is a lawsuit challenging a Louisiana abortion restriction requiring that all abortion providers be OB/GYNs. After the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners tried to discipline a non-obstetrician-gynecologist physician for performing a first-trimester abortion, Hope Medical Group for Women—a medical clinic that provides abortions—and the non-OB/GYN physician disciplined for providing abortions at the clinic brought this suit in the Eastern District of Louisiana on October 26, 2006. Rep…
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Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

1:17-cv-00690 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 20, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2021

This is a case about a 2017 Texas law that effectively banned the most commonly-performed second-trimester abortion procedure, standard dilation & evacuation (D&E), by requiring "fetal demise" before the evacuation portion of the procedure (the law, 2017 SB8, is not to be confused with 2021 SB8 which authorized private monetary penalties on providers of nearly all abortions performed after 6 weeks). On July 20, 2017, Whole Women's Health, Planned Parenthood, and other individual Texas healthcar…
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Family Planning Association of Maine v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:19-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 6, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)On March 3, 2019, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Maine, asking the court to enjoin a final order promulgated by the Trump Adminsitration.
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Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Currier

3:12-cv-00436 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 27, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2019

This is a case challenging Mississippi’s House Bill 1390, which was passed in April 2012 and required all physicians associated with an abortion facility to (1) have admitting privileges at a local hospital and (2) be board-certified or eligible in obstetrics and gynecology. Several Mississippi legislators commented publicly that the purpose of the law was to end abortion in the state. On June 27, 2012, Jackson Whole Women’s Health, Mississippi’s sole abortion provider, along with one of its ph…
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Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

1:14-cv-00284 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 2, 2014

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2020

This is a case challenging a 2013 Texas law requiring (1) a physician providing abortion services to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital no farther than 30 miles from the clinic and (2) abortion clinics to meet the building specifications of ambulatory surgical centers. On April 2, 2014, a group of Texas abortion clinics and physicians filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and their patients in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the c…
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MKB Management Corp v. Burdick

1:13-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: June 25, 2013

Closed Date: April 15, 2016

This is a case about North Dakota’s 2013 ban on abortions as early as the sixth week of pregnancy. On June 25, 2013, the plaintiffs—including the last women’s health clinic in the state that provided abortions and a physician who performed family planning services, including abortions, for the clinic’s clients—filed this lawsuit in the District of North Dakota. The plaintiffs sued the state attorney for the county in which the clinic was located, the state attorney general, and the North Dakota…
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Jackson Women's Inc. v. Amy

3:04-cv-00495 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 29, 2004

Closed Date: June 20, 2005

This case challenged a Mississippi law requiring that second-trimester abortions be performed in hospitals or ambulatory surgical centers. On June 29, 2004, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, an abortion provider, filed this lawsuit in the Southern District of Mississippi on behalf of itself and its patients. The Clinic sued the Mississippi State Department of Health, Hinds County, and the state of Mississippi under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Represented by the Center …