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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Adams & Boyle v. Slatery

3:15-cv-00705 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 25, 2015

Challenge to Tennessee Abortion Restrictions This case was filed on June 25, 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee by three reproductive healthcare providers on behalf of their patients. The complaint alleged that several state restrictions on abortion providers violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The named defendants were the state Attorney General, the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health, and the Pres…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
FemHealth USA, Inc. v. Mount Juliet, City of

3:19-cv-01141 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2021

This case concerns an ordinance passed in March 2019 by Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, which modified zoning restrictions and effectively prohibiting surgical abortion clinics from being located within the city. The ordinance limited the location of abortion clinics to certain zones and prohibited abortion clinics from being located within 1000 feet of any church, school, college, home, park, public library, or child care center. As a result, there was no suitable land in Mt. Juliet for a surgical abor…
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
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 Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner

1:13-cv-01335 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

In 2013, Indiana made two changes to its state laws regulating abortion clinics. These amendments changed the definition of “abortion clinic” to include not only clinics which provide surgical abortions, but also clinics which provided abortion-inducing medicine. They also imposed new regulations on any clinic which fell under the new definition of “abortion clinic,” requiring that all abortion clinics meet standards only necessary for facilities which conducted surgical abortions. The new defi…
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Family Planning Association of Maine v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:19-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 6, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

This is a case about the Trump Administration's Compliance with Statutory Program Integrity Requirements, 84 Fed. Reg. 7,714 (the “Rule”), published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) on March 4, 2019, and its deleterious effect on Maine reproductive health care organizations. Maine Family Planning was the largest reproductive health care organization in the state and its sole Title X family planning program grantee. Since the middle of the twenty-first century…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Tucson Woman's Clinic v. Schamadan

4:00-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 1, 2000

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2010

Abortion providers in Arizona brought this case on March 1, 2000 on behalf of themselves and their patients against several state officials pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, including the Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, the Arizona Attorney General, and a class of all prosecuting attorneys in the state of Arizona. The plaintiffs were represented by the County Attorney for the County of Maricopa. Plaintiffs challenged a set of Arizona statutes and regulations passed in 1999 th…