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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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

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

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

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

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

11.21.08 - In this action, CRR represents Dr. J.

Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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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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