United States Tenth Circuit

The lack of a health exception in a parental notification requirement rendered Colorado statute regulating abortion unconstitutional, and its enforcement was properly enjoined.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2002
• Published 04/17/2002

Judges

• LUCERO, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE, BALDOCK, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Maurice G. Knaizer, Deputy Attorney General (Ken Salazar, Attorney General, John S. Sackett, Assistant Attorney General, State of Colorado, Denver, Colorado;  A. William Ritter, Jr., District Attorney, Henry R. Reeve, Deputy District Attorney, Second Judicial District, Denver, Colorado;  and Jeanne M. Smith, District Attorney, Fourth Judicial District, Colorado Springs, Colorado, with him on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellants., Jennifer Ellen Dalven, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Reproductive Freedom Project, New York, N.Y. (Louise Melling, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Reproductive Freedom Project, New York, NY, Edward T. Ramey, Isaacson, Rosenbaum, Woods & Levy, P.C., Denver, CO, Tim Atkeson and Keri Howe, Arnold & Porter, Denver, CO, Mark Silverstein, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado, Denver, CO, Kevin C. Paul, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Inc., Denver, CO, with her on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Paul Benjamin Linton, Northbrook, IL, filed an amici curiae brief on behalf of the Colorado Pro Life Alliance, Inc., and United Families International, Inc., in support of Defendants-Appellants., A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Kimberly A. Parker, and Julie M. Riewe, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, filed an amici curiae brief on behalf of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, the Colorado Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Women's Association, and the American Public Health Association, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.