United States Ninth Circuit

In case involving an Idaho law governing minors' access to abortion services, the statute's definition of "medical emergency" is unconstitutionally narrow, and that without an adequate medical exception, the parental consent statute is invalid.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/16/2004
• Published 07/16/2004

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before HAWKINS, McKEOWN, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William T. Sali, Kuna, ID, for the amici-curiae., A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, for amici-curiae Society for Adolescent Medicine, American Public Health Ass'n and Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.


• For Appellees:
  
• Helene T. Krasnoff,Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Washington, DC, for the plaintiffs-appellants-cross-appellees., Clinton E. Minor, Deputy Attorney General and Jeremy Chou, Deputy Attorney General, State of Idaho, Boise, ID;  Scott J. Smith, Racine, Olson, Nye, Budge & Bailey, Pocatello, ID, for the defendants-appellees-cross-appellants.