United States Fifth Circuit

Plaintiff medical doctors who challenge the constitutionality of a statute providing for a private tort remedy against doctors who perform abortions do not present an Ex parte Young exception to the Eleventh Amendment immunity from suit in federal court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/12/2001
• Published 03/12/2001

Judges

• E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, WIENER, BARKSDALE, EMILIO M. GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sidney M. Bach,Bach & Wasserman, Metairie, LA, for Okpalobi., Terry Anne O'Neill, Tulane Law Clinic, New Orleans, LA, for The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana, Louisiana Chapter of the Nat. Organization for Women and Planned Parenthood of Louisiana, Inc., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Priscilla Joyce Smith (argued), Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, New York City, William E. Rittenberg, Rittenberg & Samuel, New Orleans, LA, for Intervenors-Appellees., Robert B. Barbor, LA Dept. of Public Safety & Corrections, Roy A. Mongrue, Jr. Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.