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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
Memphis Center for Reproductive Health v. Slatery

3:20-cv-00501 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 19, 2020

Closed Date: July 28, 2022

This is a case about challenges to several Tennessee abortion restrictions. On June 19, 2020, plaintiffs Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health, FemHealth USA, and two doctors filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs sued the attorney general of Tennessee along with several other state officials for violating their Fourteenth Amendme…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Bryant v. Woodall

1:16-cv-01368 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2022

On November 30, 2016, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to overturn a North Carolina law that prevented doctors from providing pre-viability abortions after the twentieth week of pregnancy except in narrowly defined medical emergencies. Plaintiffs based their argument on established United States Supreme Court precedent, now overruled, prohibiting a ban on abortion pri…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Jegley

4:21-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

This case is one in a string of challenges to Arkansas’s abortion access restrictions. A few months prior to the filing of this suit, the Eighth Circuit enjoined the state’s pre-viability bans on abortion via Act 493 (criminalizing abortion at 18 weeks) in Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge.  The present case was filed in response to Act 309 (“Act 309”), signed into law on March 26, 2021, which effectively prohibited abortion in nearly all cases and imposed criminal penalties on d…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc. v. Parson

2:19-cv-04155 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 30, 2019

Closed Date: July 13, 2022

On July 30, 2019, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, challenging Missouri laws that would ban abortion in the state at nearly every stage of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, sued the Governor of Missouri, the state Attorney General, the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, the President of the State Medical Board, and the Director of the D…
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
Preterm-Cleveland v. Himes

1:18-cv-00109 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 9, 2024

Ohio House Bill 214 (“the Act”) was signed into law on December 22, 2017. The Act criminalized performing abortions if the provider knew that one reason for the decision to terminate the pregnancy was a fetal indication of Down syndrome. Three nonprofits, including Planned Parenthood; the owner and operator of a women’s medical center; and a licensed physician (“the plaintiffs”) brought this case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on February 15, 2018, alleging that th…
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…