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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Glisson [later Meier]

3:17-cv-00189 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 29, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2023

This action was filed on March 29, 2017 by the ACLU, representing an individual doctor and his patients seeking abortions, as well as EMW Women’s Surgical Center, the only abortion clinic in the state of Kentucky, which was threatened with closure after the state found technical deficiencies in its agreements with a hospital and ambulance service. The suit was filed in the Western District of Kentucky against Kentucky’s Secretary for Health and Family Services and alleged violations of Substant…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
West Alabama Women's Center v. Miller

2:15-cv-00497 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 10, 2015

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2019

On July 10, 2015, the West Alabama Women’s Center, its Medical Director, and a physician it employed (collectively, the “Clinic”), sued Alabama's State Health Officer (“SHO”) in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Represented by the ACLU, the Clinic challenged an Alabama statute that required every physician who performed an abortion at a licensed abortion clinic to have staff privileges at a local hospital or, alternatively, that the clinic have a written agree…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner, Indiana State Department of Health

1:18-cv-01219 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 23, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2022

This is a case about challenges to abortion restrictions in Indiana. On March 25, 2018, the Indiana governor signed Indiana Senate Enrolled Act No. 340 into law, which required physicians to report “all abortion complications.” The act defined abortion complications as “any adverse physical or psychological condition arising from the induction or performance of an abortion” and imposed licensing consequences on providers who failed to report after July 1, 2018, and criminal consequences beginni…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Fulwider v. Senior

4:16-cv-00765 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 3, 2018

A Florida state law enacted on March 25, 2016, required friends, neighbors, family members, clergy, charitable groups, and others who counseled or gave advice to a woman considering an abortion to make a “full and detailed explanation of abortion, including the effects of and alternatives to abortion,” and, in the case of a minor, advise the parents or guardian. The law also required those same categories of people be licensed and pay a fee before helping or advising a person about obtaining an…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Arkansas & Eastern Oklahoma v. Smith

4:17-cv-00401 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 20, 2017

Closed Date: April 8, 2019

Two abortion providers, Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma and Little Rock Family Planning Services, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on June 20, 2017, where it was assigned to Judge James Moody. The plaintiffs sought to enjoin the Arkansas Department of Health from enforcing a provision of a state law known as Act 383 that required the Arkansas Department of Health to revoke the licenses of any abortion-providing medical facili…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services v. Abbott

1:13-cv-00862 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2013

Closed Date: Dec. 10, 2014

This is a case is about a challenge to Texas House Bill 2 (“the Act”) which allegedly imposed burdensome requirements on abortion providers. On September 27, 2013, several abortion clinics and physicians filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and their patients in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of Texas, the Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, the Executive Director of t…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Hodges

1:15-cv-00568 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2015

Two individual healthcare providers, represented by attorneys at the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Gerhardstein & Branch, brought this § 1983 suit in September 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to challenge new state regulations that imposed restrictions on abortion clinics. Plaintiffs in this case were the last two health clinics in southwest Ohio offering abortion procedures: Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio (PPSWO) and Women’s Medical Group Professional Co…
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Falls Church Medical Center, LLC v. Oliver

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 20, 2018

Closed Date: July 28, 2020

This case, brought in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on June 20, 2018, challenged the constitutionality of several Virginia statutes and regulations that governed the provision of abortion care throughout the state. The plaintiffs were a series of Virginia healthcare providers that provided elective abortion care, gynelogical, and family planning services. Represented by the ACLU, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, and a private law firm, plain…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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: Feb. 16, 2023

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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Choice Inc. of Texas v. Greenstein

3:10-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2010

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2012

This is a case about constitutional challenges to a Louisiana Act that allowed the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals to revoke an outpatient abortion facility’s license upon violation of any state or federal law or regulation. The case also concerned a zero-tolerance policy that the department instituted whereby the abortion facilities received no notice or opportunity to correct violations before having their license revoked. On September 20, 2010, several clinics t…