Supreme Court of Florida

Summary judgment for plaintiffs holding that the unconstitutionality of a particular subsection rendered the "Woman-s Right to Know Act," an informed consent statute involving termination of pregnancies, facially unconstitutional is reversed where the lower courts erred in holding that the Act was unconstitutional on the basis of the particular subsection at issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/06/2006
• Published 04/06/2006

Judges

• LEWIS, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Christopher M. Kise, Solicitor General, Louis F. Hubener, Chief Deputy Solicitor General, John J. Rimes, III, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and James A. Peters, Special Counsel, Tallahassee, FL, for Appellants., Mathew D. Staver, Erick W. Stanley, Anita, L. Staver, Rena M. Lindevaldsen and Lindsey F. Martin of Liberty Counsel, Longwood, FL, and Teresa Stanton Collett, Profession of Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN, on behalf of Christian Medical Association and Catholic Medical Association;  Jo Ann Barone Kotzen of Kotzen Law, West Palm Beach, FL on behalf of American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Florida Section (ACOG-FS);  and Donna Lee, New York, NY on behalf of Florida Association of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, Planned Parenthood of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties, Planned Parenthood of the Palm Beach and Treasure Coast Area, Planned Parenthood of Collier County, Planned Parenthood of North Central Florida, American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, and American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marshall J. Osofsky of Moyle, Flanigan, Katz, Raymond and Sheehan, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL;  Bebe J. Anderson and Nan Strauss of Center for Reproductive Rights, New York, NY;  and Barry M. Silver, Boca Raton, FL, for Appellees.