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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
Chelius v. Wright

1:17-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2017

In 2000, the FDA approved the drug mifepristone under the brand name Mifeprex for use in terminating an early pregnancy. Mifeprex was the only drug approved for this purpose. However, the FDA subjected Mifeprex to a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy ("Mifeprex REMS") that burdened health care providers and limited patient access to the medication. The Mifeprex REMS provided that a patient could not obtain the medication by prescription at a retail pharmacy and instead had to be handed the…

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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Hopkins v. Jegley

4:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 20, 2017

Closed Date: July 13, 2022

This is a case challenging abortion restrictions in Arkansas. On June 20, 2017, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and abortion provider filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The plaintiff sued Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and a cooperating attorney from the ACLU of Arkan…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:18-cv-00224 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 10, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2022

This is a case about abortion rights in Kentucky. On April 10, 2018, abortion providers filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. They sued Kentucky’s Attorney General, the interim secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Executive Director of the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, and the Attorney for the 30th Judicial Circuit of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the ACLU of Kentucky and the ACLU, the abortion provid…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stuart v. Huff

1:11-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2011

This case has to do with the “Woman’s Right to Know Act” (the Act), which was enacted on July 28, 2011 after the legislature overrode a veto by the Governor of North Carolina. This case was brought by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, and A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh, Inc., on behalf of various physicians, licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina and other various clinics providing reproductive health care services in North Carolina. The case was b…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stenberg v. Carhart

4:97-cv-03205 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: June 12, 1997

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Nebraska. On June 12, 1997, a doctor who performed abortions filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska. The plaintiff sued the Attorney General of the state of Nebraska, the Director of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure, the County Attorney for Sarpy County, Nebraska, and the Chief Medical Officer for Nebraska. Represented by The Center for Reproductive…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc. v. Cox

2:05-cv-70779 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 1, 2005

Closed Date: April 7, 2008

This case is a challenge to Michigan’s “Legal Birth Definition Act,” which penalized physicians for performing dilation and extraction and dilation and evacuation abortions. Enacted in 2005, the law established a protected legal status for partially-delivered fetuses, called perinates. A perinate was defined as a live human being that is either expelled or extracted from the mother's body. The law imposed civil and criminal penalties for physicians who performed procedures that led to the injur…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Carhart v. Ashcroft

4:03-cv-03385 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2003

Closed Date: July 26, 2007

This is a case challenging the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Act, which Congress passed in 2003. Congress passed this law three years after the Supreme Court in Stenberg v. Carhart struck down a similar Nebraska statute prohibiting intact dilation and evacuation (intact D&E). 530 U.S. 914. Intact D&E is a procedure in which fetal death occurs after the physician partially delivers the fetus, in contrast with the more common type of D&E where fetal death occurs prior to extract…
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Richmond Medical v. Hicks

3:03-cv-00531 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 18, 2003

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2009

On June 18, 2003, the Richmond Medical Center For Women brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the Commonwealth Attorney for the City of Richmond and the Commonwealth Attorney for the County of Henrico. The case was originally assigned to Judge Robert E. Payne, but Defendants requested a random reassignment, which was granted. The case was randomly reassigned to Judge Richard L. Williams on July 1, 2003.  This case challenged a Virginia Statute…
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Whole Woman's Health Alliance v. Rokita

1:18-cv-01904 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 21, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2022

This is a case challenging Indiana laws regulating abortion. On June 21, 2018, a group of abortion providers and nonprofit organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs, represented by The Lawyering Project and a private firm, sued Indiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief and attorney's fees. They claimed Indiana’s abortion laws violated the free speech clause of the First Amendment and the due p…