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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

On May 15, 2019, the plaintiffs, for-profit and non-profit providers of medical and surgical abortions in Ohio and their doctors, filed an initial complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the Ohio State Department of Health, the State Medical Board of Ohio, and various county prosecutors. They contested the Ohio State Legislature's 6-week abortion ban, passed on April 10th of that year. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. Kemp

1:19-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 28, 2019

The ACLU, the ACLU of Georgia, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Planned Parenthood filed this suit on June 28, 2019, challenging an imminent Georgia law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The plaintiffs, which also included health care providers and their patients, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, against the Georgia state governor, attorney general, health officials, and district attorneys. On due process groun…
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
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 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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Edwards v. Beck

4:13-cv-00224 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 16, 2013

On April 16, 2013, two Arkansas physicians ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas challenging the Arkansas General Assembly's ban on abortion starting at twelve weeks of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights, sued fifteen members of the Arkansas State Medical Board, including the board's president, and asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent enforcement of …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braid v. Stilley

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

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

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 …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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 …