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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Hoye v. City of Oakland

3:07-cv-06411 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2007

Closed Date: 2012

On December 19, 2007, plaintiff, a minister who attempted to dissuade women seeking an abortion in front of an abortion facility, filed this lawsuit against the City of Oakland under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel and the Life Legal Defense Foundation, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief as well as damages, claiming that the defendant's ordinance regu…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Aid for Women v. Foulston

6:03-cv-01353 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2003

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2008

Individual licensed professionals, including healthcare providers and social workers, joined Aid for Women, a gynecological medical practice in Kansas City, to bring this putative class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, against district attorneys in Kansas and (in an amended complaint) the state attorney general. They filed the case on October 3, 2003, after the attorney general of Kansas issued a 2003 advisory opinion, interpreting the state’s child abuse report…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Relf v. Weinberger

73-cv-01557 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 17, 1973

Closed Date: Sept. 13, 1977

On July 17, 1973, a group of private plaintiffs who were victims of sterilization abuse, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, brought a class action lawsuit against the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services), and the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, took issue with sterilization abuse against women that was fun…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Moore

20-cvs-500147 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 22, 2022

Abortion providers in North Carolina (Planned Parenthood South Atlantic; A Woman’s Choice of Charlotte; A Woman’s Choice of Greensboro; A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh; three doctors; and an advanced practice clinician), and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective filed this case on September 3, 2020 to challenge five medically unnecessary abortion restrictions (the “Abortion Restrictions”): The Advanced Practice Clinician (“APC”) Ban, which disallows qualified physician assistan…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky v. Labrador

1:23-cv-00142 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 5, 2023

This is a case about abortion access in Idaho. On March 27, 2023, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador publicized a legal opinion saying that the state's near-total abortion ban, enacted in August 2022, "prohibits an Idaho medical provider from . . . referring a woman across state lines to access abortion services." In response, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the ACLU, the ACLU of Idaho, and private counsel filed this lawsuit on behalf of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, A…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe v. Minnesota

62-cv-19-3868 | Minnesota state trial court

Filed Date: May 29, 2019

Closed Date: May 30, 2024

This case concerns a challenge to a variety of Minnesota state laws concerning abortion and the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.  On May 29, 2019 several Minnesota medical professionals as well as a religious congregation filed suit in Minnesota’s Second Judicial District against Minnesota’s Governor, Attorney General, Commissioner of Health, Board of Medical Practice and Board of Nursing. Plaintiffs were represented by the Lawyering Project and Gender Justice. In their complaint, pl…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Caring Families Pregnancy Services v. Hartford

3:19-cv-00584 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 18, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 7, 2020

This is a case challenging an ordinance in the City of Hartford, Connecticut, that regulated pregnancy resource centers (PRCs). PRCs are organizations that provide counseling and other services to people facing unplanned pregnancies. Often, PRCs present themselves as healthcare facilities but do not employ licensed medical professionals to provide or supervise pregnancy tests, ultrasound examinations, and other medical services. On December 11, 2017, the City of Hartford enacted an ordinance re…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Azar

1:19-cv-01103 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 12, 2019

Closed Date: June 16, 2021

This is a case that challenged a Final Rule adopted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the Trump-Pence administration.  The Rule imposed restrictions on organizations receiving grants pursuant to Title X. The restrictions included a “gag rule” that prohibited recipients of Title X funds from providing their patients with referrals for abortion care, and “separation requirements” mandating that recipients of Title X funds be “physically and financially separate” fro…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
National Institute of Family Life Advocates v. Raoul

3:23-cv-50279 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 27, 2023

This case involves a legal challenge to Illinois Senate Bill 1909 (“SB1909”), a 2023 law intended to prohibit limited services pregnancy centers from employing practices which could be seen as involving deception, mis-representations, or omissions of any material fact. The law amended Illinois’ Deceptive Business Practices Act to forbid “unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices” by limited-service pregnancy centers, and was made effective immediately upon passage. …

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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Bella Health and Wellness v. Weiser

1:23-cv-00939 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: April 14, 2023

On April 14, 2023, plaintiffs — a Catholic medical center and its founders and healthcare practitioners — filed a complaint against the Attorney General of Colorado, the Colorado Medical Board, the State Board of Nursing, and various District Attorneys in the state in the U.S. District Court for Colorado. The complaint took issue with a Colorado law, SB 23-190, that aimed to stop deceptive trade practices and unprofessional conduct with respect to the provision of abortion services and medicati…