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EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:19-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 14, 2019

Closed Date: June 30, 2022

This is a case about two Kentucky laws: one banning abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, and the other banning abortion based on the specific reasons for the person’s decision, such as a fetal diagnosis. On March 19, 2019, EMW Women’s Surgical Center, P.S.C. on behalf of itself, its staff and its patients, and a its owner, on behalf of himself and his patients filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky Louisville Division. The plaintiffs sued the …
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Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Wilson

3:21-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2021

Closed Date: July 25, 2022

Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic (PPSA), Greenville Women’s Clinic (GWC), and an individual abortion provider on behalf of himself and his patients brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge the constitutionality of the South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat Protection from Abortion Act (hereinafter “SB 1” or “the Act”), which banned abortion after the detection of fetal or embryonic cardiac activity. This moment can occur as early as approximately the sixth week of pregna…
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Preterm-Cleveland v. Attorney General of Ohio

1:19-cv-00360 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 15, 2019

Closed Date: July 7, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: This is an ongoing lawsuit regarding Ohio state legislation that would criminalize certain abortions that was amended to include a request for relief in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order against the Department of Health's order which had banned all "non-essential surgeries and procedures" starting on March 18, 2020. The judge granted the temporary restraining order for a period of 14 days, which was affirmed by the Sixth Circuit on April 6,…
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Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Jegley

4:21-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is one in a string of challenges to Arkansas’s abortion access restrictions. A few months prior to the filing of this suit, the Eighth Circuit enjoined the state’s pre-viability bans on abortion via Act 493 (criminalizing abortion at 18 weeks) in Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge.  The present case was filed in response to Act 309 (“Act 309”), signed into law on March 26, 2021, which effectively prohibited abortion in nearly all cases and imposed criminal penalties on d…
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Slattery v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-00112 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging New York's "Boss Bill," which created a protected class based on reproductive health decision-making and forbade employers from making any employment-related decisions based on the reproductive health choices of employees, including their involvement in or advocacy for abortion or sexual relationships outside of marriage.  On January 31, 2020, a crisis pregnancy center operator and its founder filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern Dis…
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Commonwealth v. Trump

2:17-cv-04540 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October 11, 2017, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania brought this suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The case is a challenge to administrative rules promulgated by the federal government that interpret the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a way that gives employers broad discretion to deny women access to contraceptives. As such, the suit was brought against the President of the United States, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of the U.S…
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Planned Parenthood of Alaska v. Perdue

3AN-98-7004 CI | Alaska state trial court

Filed Date: June 1, 1998

Case Ongoing

Two medical doctors and Planned Parenthood of Alaska filed this lawsuit in the Superior Court, Third Judicial District of Alaska in June 1998. Represented by the ACLU of Alaska, ACLU Foundation, and Reproductive Freedom Project, the plaintiffs sued the Alaska Department of Health and Social Service (DHSS) and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Plaintiffs challenged 7 AAC 43.140, a regulation that, beginning July 1, 1998, swapped out Alaska's older General Relief Medical Program for a new…
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Lathrop v. Deal

2012-cv-224423 | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2012

Closed Date: June 19, 2017

On November 30, 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia filed this lawsuit in Georgia's Superior Court of Fulton County on behalf of three Georgia obstetrician-gynecologists. The plaintiffs sued twenty state officers in their official capacities. They challenged Georgia Bill H.B. 954, which criminalized virtually all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except for abortions in medical emergencies. Violations of the law were subject to a penalty of ten years imprisonme…
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Southampton Community Healthcare v. Bailey

23SL-CC01673 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: April 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about access to gender-affirming care for transgender people in Missouri. On April 13, 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey promulgated an emergency regulation that imposed restrictions on gender-affirming care for both minors and adults. The regulation was the first of its kind in that it applied to adults too, not just minors. It required providers to inform patients of certain claims and to ensure that patients were eligible for the care. To be eligible, patients must…
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Preterm-Cleveland v. Yost

A-2203203 | Ohio state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about a near total abortion ban imposed in Ohio under 2019 Am.Sub.S.B. No.23 ("S.B. 23"), a six-week abortion ban that took effect on June 24, 2022. On September 2, 2022 the plaintiffs, who are reproductive health care providers in Ohio, filed this lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas in Hamilton, Ohio before Common Pleas Court Judge Christian A. Jenkins. Plaintiffs filed suit against the Attorney General of the State of Ohio, the Director of the Ohio Department of Health, the Secr…