Cases and Resources

Centre for Health and Resource Management v. State of Bihar and Others (2011)

07.20.11 - CHARM v. State of Bihar and Others is a public interest litigation petition filed in March 2011 by the Center’s partner in India, Human Rights Law Network.

Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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Centre for Health and Resource Management v. The State of Bihar & Others (2009)

08.14.09 - Attorneys from HRLN conducted a fact-finding mission in 2010 that led to the subsequent withdrawal of the case in favor of refiling based on fresh evidence documenting reproductive rights violations in Bihar.

Status: 
Closed
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Choice, Inc. of Texas d/b/a Causeway Medical Clinic et al v. Greenstein (LA)

10.27.10 - Filing date: 09/20/2010

State: Louisiana, USA

Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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Deborah Hughes & Cristen Hemmins v. Delbert Hosemann, Secretary of State of Mississippi (MS)

09.27.10 - Filing date: 07/06/2010

State: Mississippi, USA

Plaintiff(s): Deborah Hughes & Cristen Hemmins

Status: 
Closed
Owner: 
The Center
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Federal: Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. et al. v. Robert Moser, M.D et al.

06.28.11 - This case challenges the constitutionality of onerous temporary regulations and a sham licensing process adopted and implemented by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) that will cause most of the abortion providers in the State to cease providing ongoing

Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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Fort Wayne Women’s Health v. Health Commissioner, Fort Wayne-Allen County Department Of Health

06.01.10 - A case challenging a county ordinance that allows for increased government access to confidential patient records and imposes a special set of stringent requirements on doctors who practice in Fort Wayne-Allen County, but live outside of the area and do not have privileges to admit patients at

Status: 
Closed
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Gauer and Others v. France

10.21.11 - In August 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed an amicus brief to the European Court of Human Rights in support of Joëlle Gauer and Others —five women with mental disabilities in France who were forcibly sterilized—arguing that forced sterilization constitutes

Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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Hope Medical Group for Women vs. Keck, et al (LA)

10.27.10 - The Center, on behalf of Hope Medical Group for Women, is challenging actions by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals ordering an immediate suspension and seeking permanent revocation of the clinic's operating license, on the grounds that the State's action violate the clinic's

Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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MKB Management Corp d/b/a Red River Women’s Clinic, Kathryn Eggleston, M.D., v. Birch Burdick and Terry Dwelle, M.D.

07.15.11 -  This case challenges provisions of North Dakota House Bill 1297, passed during the 2011 legislative session, which would effectively ban all medication abortions in the state by requiring compliance with conditions for the provision of "abortion-inducing drugs" that are

Owner: 
The Center
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Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, et al. v. State of Alaska

11.23.10 - This case challenges a law which would require a young woman seeking an abortion to have at least one of her parents notified of the procedure and to wait at least 48 hours before she could obtain the procedure, unless the young woman sought a judicial bypass of the parental notification

Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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