United States Sixth Circuit

Grant of a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of an Ohio statute which prohibits the off-label use of an abortion drug is vacated and remanded for consideration of the scope of injunctive relief where the district court's holding that a health or life exception requirement is a per se rule was erroneous.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/24/2006
• Published 02/24/2006

Judges

• Before:  MOORE, ROGERS, and McKEAGUE Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Anne Berry Strait, Office of the Attorney General, Charitable Law Section, for Appellants.  Nicole G. Berner, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Anne Berry Strait, Office of the Attorney General, Charitable Law Section, Columbus, Ohio, Sharon A. Jennings, Holly J. Hunt, Office of the Attorney General of Ohio, Constitutional Offices Section, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellants.  Nicole G. Berner, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Washington, D.C., Alphonse A. Gerhardstein, Gerhardstein, Branch & Laufman, Cincinnati, Ohio, Roger K. Evans, Mimi Y.C. Liu, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York, New York, Jeffrey M. Gamso, American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, Jessie Hill, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellees.  Peter O. Safir, Kelly A. Falconer, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.