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Planned Parenthood of Montana v. State of Montana

DV 21-999 | Montana state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2021

Planned Parenthood of Montana and a physician brought this lawsuit challenging several laws restricting abortion, including a 20-week abortion ban, a heartbeat bill, ultrasound viewing, and restrictions on the use of abortion-inducing medications. On August 16, 2021, Planned Parenthood of Montana and a private physician who provided abortion care at Planned Parenthood of Montana (collectively, “PPMT”), sued, on behalf of themselves and their patients, the State of Montana through their Attorney…
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
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. Georgia

2022CV367796 | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: July 26, 2022

On July 26, 2022, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Collective, Feminist Women’s Health Center, Planned Parenthood Southeast, Atlanta Comprehensive Wellness Clinic, Atlanta Women’s Medical Center, Femhealth, Summit Medical Associates, Medical Students for Choice, and three physicians filed suit against the state of Georgia in the Superior Court for Fulton County (Georgia state trial court). The plaintiffs challenged the state's Six-Week Ban on abortion and the Records Access Provision enac…
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 …
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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…
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Adkins v. State of Idaho

CV01-23-14744 | Idaho state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2023

This suit challenged Idaho's Total Abortion Ban and Six-Week Abortion Ban as violating the rights of pregnant people and physicians protected by the Idaho Constitution. On September 11, 2023, four private plaintiffs, two doctors, and the Idaho Academy of Physicians, (collectively, “DRP”) sued the Governor of Idaho, the Attorney General of Idaho, and the Idaho State Board of Medicine (the “State Board”), (collectively, “Idaho”) in Idaho state trial court. DRP challenged both Idaho’s Total Aborti…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. State of South Carolina

South Carolina state supreme court

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2023

This case concerns a statutory interpretation of South Carolina’s Fetal Heartbeat bill.  On September 14, 2023, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and several South Carolina physicians and nurses filed suit for declaratory judgment in the South Carolina Supreme Court. Plaintiffs asked the Court to clarify the meaning of a state law banning abortions after a “fetal heartbeat” has been detected. Plaintiffs filed suit under the State’s Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act and State’s Due Process Claus…
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Preterm-Cleveland v. Kasich

CV 13 815214 | Ohio state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2013

Closed Date: Feb. 6, 2018

This case involves a challenge to three abortion-related amendments passed as part of Ohio’s state budget bill. On October 9, 2013 Preterm Cleveland, a state-licensed surgical facility that provides reproductive health services, filed suit challenging Ohio’s 2014-2015 Budget Bill in the Cuyahoga County Court. Represented by the ACLU of Ohio, Preterm Cleveland alleged that the Budget Bill’s inclusion of three provisions relating to abortion violated the bill’s unity of purpose and therefore the …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed

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The Satanic Temple v. Little

1:22-cv-00411 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2022

This is a case concerning the religious freedom to perform and receive an abortion. On March 14th, 2022, Idaho enacted a ban on abortions after six weeks, Idaho Code § 18-8804, after a “fetal heartbeat” has been detected (“the Fetal Heartbeat Ban.”). Later that year, on August 25th, the state enacted a near-total ban on abortion,  Idaho Code §§ 18- 622, allowing exceptions only for rape, incest and for the safety of the mother (“the Criminal Abortion Statute”).  On September 30, 2022 The Satani…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Pending

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Planned Parenthood Great Northwest v. State of Idaho

49615-2022 | Idaho state supreme court

Filed Date: March 30, 2022

Closed Date: Jan. 5, 2023

BackgroundThis is a case about abortion rights in Idaho. It was consolidated from three cases filed on March 30, June 27, and July 25, 2022. All three cases were filed by Planned Parenthood and an Idaho doctor, represented by private law firms. The plaintiffs sued Idaho in each case; the second and third cases also included two Idaho counties and the state boards of medicine, nursing, and pharmacy as defendants. The cases were all heard by the Idaho Supreme Court, which has original jurisdictio…