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All-Options v. Attorney General of Indiana

1:21-cv-01231 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 18, 2021

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenged Indiana abortion restrictions banning the use of telehealth for dispensing abortion medication and requiring physicians to disclose misleading information to patients about the potential to reverse medical abortions. On May 18, 2021, a coalition of medical clinics and physicians filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued Indiana state officials, including the attorney general of Indiana, in their official capaci…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Adams & Boyle v. Slatery

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

Filed Date: June 25, 2015

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary In light of COVID-19, the Governor of Tennessee issued an executive order limiting "non-emergency" health care procedures, including all abortions except for medication abortion. The plaintiffs supplemented their complaint to address the order. The district court enjoined the defendants from enforcing the order on April 17, 2020, and the Sixth Circuit affirmed the injunction on April 24. However, on January 25, 2021, the Supreme Court vacated the injunction as moot. Challenge …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

1:17-cv-00690 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 20, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2021

This is a case about a 2017 Texas law that effectively banned the most commonly-performed second-trimester abortion procedure, standard dilation & evacuation (D&E), by requiring "fetal demise" before the evacuation portion of the procedure (the law, 2017 SB8, is not to be confused with 2021 SB8 which authorized private monetary penalties on providers of nearly all abortions performed after 6 weeks). On July 20, 2017, Whole Women's Health, Planned Parenthood, and other individual Texas healthcar…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Maryland, Inc. v. Azar

1:20-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the government’s adoption of the separate billing rule, which reinterpreted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and required health insurance plans on the individual marketplace to send policyholders a separate bill and receive separate payment for the abortion-related portion of plan premiums. On February 11, 2020, Planned Parenthood of Maryland and individuals who wanted to maintain abortion coverage through their qualified health plans filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District C…
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

Case Ongoing

This case is one in a string of challenges to Arkansas’s abortion access restrictions. A few months prior to the 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 Arkansas Act 309 (“Act 309”), signed into law in March 2021, which effectively prohibited abortion in nearly all cases and imposed criminal penalties on doctors who …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc. v. Cox

2:05-cv-70779 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 1, 2005

Closed Date: April 7, 2008

This case is a challenge to Michigan’s “Legal Birth Definition Act,” which penalized physicians for performing dilation and extraction and dilation and evacuation abortions. Enacted in 2005, the law established a protected legal status for partially-delivered fetuses, called perinates. A perinate was defined as a live human being that is either expelled or extracted from the mother's body. The law imposed civil and criminal penalties for physicians who performed procedures that led to the injur…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi v. Slatery

3:20-cv-00740 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

On August 31, 2020, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, on behalf of abortion providers in the state, challenged what they alleged was a medically unsound “abortion reversal” law in Tennessee. The providers brought this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the law violated their First Amendment right against compelled speech and Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection and substantive due process. They sued the Commissioner of the Tennessee Depa…
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

Case Ongoing

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 six weeks of pregnancy, …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio v. Hodges

1:16-cv-00539 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 11, 2016

Closed Date: July 2, 2019

On May 11, 2016, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio filed this lawsuit in the U.S. Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The plaintiffs sued the Ohio Department of Health under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin the defendants from cutting off the plaintiffs' access to state and federal funding. The plaintiffs claimed that on February 21, 2016, Ohio Governor…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc. v. Bentley

2:15-cv-00620 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2015

Closed Date: 2015

On August 28, 2015, Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc. (PPSE) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. PPSE sued the Governor of Alabama and the Alabama Medicaid Agency under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the Medicaid Act and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin the defendant from terminating PPSE's Medicaid provider agreement. S…