United States Ninth Circuit

Regarding plaintiffs' constitutional challenge to a law requiring licensing of medical facilities performing five or more abortions per month, court reversed summary judgment for the plaintiffs on undue burden claims, but granted them summary judgment on 4th Amendment and privacy claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/04/2003
• Decided 06/18/2004
• Published 06/18/2004

Judges

• Before: TASHIMA, THOMAS, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bonnie Scott Jones, Center for Reproductive Rights, New York, NY, for the plaintiffs-appellants and cross-appellees., Kevin D. Ray and Lynne C. Adams, Office of the Arizona Attorney General, Phoenix, AZ, for defendants-appellees and cross-appellants Catherine Eden and Terry Goddard., Denise M. Burke, Special Deputy Maricopa County Attorneys, San Antonio, Texas;  Nicholas T. Nikas, Deputy Maricopa County Attorney, Phoenix, AZ, for defendant-appellee and cross-appellant Richard M. Romley.