Cases and Resources

Victor Fisher, Anne Harrison, Mark A. Sandberg v. Craig Campbell (AK)

12.16.09 - This case, known as the Alaska Personhood Initiative, is a pre-election challenge to the Alaska Lieutenant Governor's certification of a measure seeking to extend legal rights from the moment of conception.  

Case filed:  11/23/2009

Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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A.S. v. Hungary (United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women)

12.10.08 - The A.S. v. Hungary complaint was filed under the Optional Protocol to CEDAW on behalf of a Hungarian woman of Roma origin who was coercively sterilized in a public hospital.

Owner: 
The Center
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Achyut Prasad Kharel v. Government of Nepal / Amici (Supreme Court of Nepal)

12.10.08 - 
Filing date: April 2004

Country/Region:  Nepal

Plaintiff(s): Achyut Prasad Kharel

Center Attorney(s):  Melissa Upreti

Owner: 
The Center
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Aid for Women v. Foulston (KS)

12.12.08 - The Center for Reproductive Rights initiated this case in 2003 after then-Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline issued an opinion that construed the State's child-abuse reporting statute to require doctors, nurses, school counselors, psychotherapists, and others to report as a potential victim of

Owner: 
The Center
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Alyne da Silva Pimentel v. Brazil (Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women)

12.10.08 - In a brief filed before the CEDAW Committee, the Center asks the Committee to issue a decision requiring Brazil to compensate Alyne da Silva Pimentel’s surviving family, including her 9-year-old daughter, and prioritize the reduction of maternal mortality, including by training providers,

Owner: 
The Center
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Ana Victoria Sánchez Villalobos and others v. Costa Rica / Amici (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights/Costa Rica)

12.15.04 - 
Filing date: Case admitted to IACHR in March 2004

Country/Region:  LAC

Plaintiff(s): Patients of Dr. Gerardo Escalante López and Dr. Delia Ribas who were fertilized with in-vitro fertilization techniques

Owner: 
The Center
Link: 
Inter-American Commision on Human Rights
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Armstrong v. Mazurek (MT); Armstrong v. State

12.09.08 - In 1995, the Montana Legislature passed a law restricting performance of abortions to licensed physicians.  The new law effectively overturned a previous state law, in effect since the early 1970s, which had been interpreted to allow physician assistants to perform abortions under the

Status: 
Closed
Owner: 
The Center
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Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood for Northern New England (NH)

11.21.08 - The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted an amicus (or friend-of-the-court) brief in this case before the Supreme Court, as part of our efforts to preserve the ability of abortion providers and patients to challenge abortion restrictions before they take affect and cause harm to women.

Status: 
Closed
Owner: 
The Center
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Brittany Prudhome v. June Medical Services, L.L.C. (LA)

12.02.09 - This state court action is a companion case to CRR's federal court action against a Louisiana civil liability law that allows abortion providers to be sued for every single abortion they perform.  See our federal case,

Owner: 
The Center
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Carey v. Maricopa County (AZ)

11.21.08 - In this action, CRR represents Dr. J. Christopher Carey as part of our ongoing efforts to protect the ability of physicians to obtain abortion training, and to perform abortion procedures without undue government interference.

Filing date:  08/18/2005

Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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