United States Fifth Circuit
WOMEN'S MED. CTR. OF NORTHWEST HOUSTON v. BELL, 00-20037
Regulations requiring appellants to license their medical offices as abortion facilities are unconstitutionally vague, because they impermissibly subject physicians to sanctions based not on their own objective behavior, but on the subjective viewpoints of others.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/13/2001
- Published 04/13/2001
Judges
- WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before WIENER and STEWART, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, District Judge.
Court
- United States Fifth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Thomas Drought, Drought, Drought & Bobbitt, San Antonio, TX, for U.S. Catholic Conference and Texas Catholic Conference, Amicus Curiae.
- For Appellees:
- Janet Crepps (argued), Linda Ann Rosenthal, Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, New York City, Craig R. Smyser, Asim M. Bhansali, Smyser, Kaplan & Veselka, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Gregory Scott Coleman, Stuart Kyle Duncan (argued), Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.