United States Tenth Circuit

Denial of an abortion provider's motion to enjoin a recently-enacted state statute requiring parental notification before a minor may receive an abortion is affirmed where plaintiff failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits since the challenged text of the statute, involving judicial approval of a minor's abortion without parental notification, plainly requires prompt and expedited decisions, and plaintiff provided no evidence that state courts would not meet those mandates.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2006
• Published 08/28/2006

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, EBEL and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sanford M. Cohen, Center for Reproductive Rights, New York, N.Y. (Galen Sherwin, Center for Reproductive Rights, New York, NY, M.M. Hardwick, Hardwick Law Office, Tulsa, OK, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Teresa S. Collett, Special Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma, Minneapolis, MN (David T. Iski and James D. Dunn, Assistant District Attorneys, Tulsa County District Attorney's Office, Tulsa, OK, with her on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.