United States First Circuit

The State of New Hamphire's Parental Notification Prior to Abortion Act, which requires parental notification before abortions may be performed on unemancipated minors, is unconstitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/24/2004
• Published 11/24/2004

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, and SARIS, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel J. Mullen, Associate Attorney General, with whom Suzanne M. Gorman, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Andrew B. Livernois, Assistant Attorney General, were on brief, for appellant., Teresa Stanton Collett, Professor of Law University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN, was on brief, for amici curia New Hampshire Legislators in support of appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dara Klassel, with whom Martin P. Honigberg, Sulloway & Hollis, PLLC, Jennifer Dalven, Corinne Schiff, Lawrence A. Vogelman, and Shuchman, Krause & Vogelman, PLLC, were on brief, for appellees.