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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

1:21-cv-00616 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 13, 2021

Closed Date: July 5, 2023

This is a case about the challenge of SB 8, a Texas law that allowed private citizens to enforce a ban on abortion as early as six weeks in pregnancy. On July 13, 2021, several abortion providers, funds, and individuals who provided counsel to patients seeking abortions, filed this defendant class action in United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued a putative class of state court judges and clerks, a private individual deputized to enforce SB 8, and sta…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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 …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whitmer v. Linderman

2022-193498-CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 7, 2022

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2023

This case was filed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, to prevent enforcement of Michigan’s long-dormant anti-abortion law. Michigan’s dormant 1931 felony abortion law, MCL 750.14, criminalizes providing an abortion in almost all circumstances and threatens physicians who perform the procedure with imprisonment. MCL 750.14 was never repealed and has only gone unenforced because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, overruled on June 24, 2022, to protect the right to abortion.…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Michigan v. Attorney General of Michigan

22-000044-MM | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 7, 2022

Closed Date: Sept. 7, 2022

This case is plaintiffs’ effort to avoid the triggering of Michigan’s dormant anti-abortion law. Michigan’s 1931 felony abortion law, MCL 750.14, criminalizes providing an abortion in almost all circumstances and threatens physicians who perform the procedure with imprisonment. MCL 750.14 was never repealed; it has not been enforced because of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade holding that the U.S. Constitution protects the right to get an abortion. The Michigan Supreme Court has yet …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
June Medical Services, LLC v. Landry

22-5633 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

This case is about Louisiana's three abortion "trigger" laws which had been enacted in 2006 and in 2022 in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Three days after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Center for Reproductive Rights sued, on behalf of June Medical Services (d.b.a. Hope Medical Group for Women), the state in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans in the State of Louisiana on June 27, 2022, c…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

2022-38397 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 10, 2022

Legislative Background This case is about Texas’ effort to criminalize pre-6-week abortions by enforcing 1925 state law, even prior to the effectuation of Texas' abortion trigger ban. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal constitutional right to abortion. Prior to Dobbs, Texas had already effectively banned abortions after six weeks through Senate Bill (SB) 8. 142 S.Ct. 2228. A few providers co…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
State of Texas v. Becerra

5:22-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 14, 2022

Texas state officials filed suit against Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and two Director-level officials the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”; an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services which works with state governments to administer Medicaid and other federally-funded programs) on July 14, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Organizational plaintiffs also included the American Association of Pro-Life Obste…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States v. State of Idaho

1:22-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2022

Closed Date: March 5, 2025

On August 2, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho to protect what it alleged were rights of patients to access emergency abortion care guaranteed by federal law. The suit challenged Idaho Code § 18-622, which was set to go into effect on Aug. 25 and to impose a near-total ban on abortion. The complaint sought a declaratory judgment that § 18-622 conflicted with, and was preempted by, the federal Emergency Medical Treatment …

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EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Cameron

22-CI-3225 | Kentucky state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

Closed Date: June 27, 2023

This case is about Kentucky's Trigger Ban (KRS 311.772) and Six-Week Ban (KRS 311.7701) prohibiting abortion following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. to overturn Roe v. Wade. On June 27, 2022, Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and the EMW Women's Surgical Center brought suit against the state in the Jefferson Circuit Court in the State of Kentucky, claiming that the statutes violate state constitutional rights to privacy and self-determination. Plaintiffs …