Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A., et al. v. Schmidt & Howe
(REVISED 4.07.2021) This lawsuit, filed on June 1, 2015, challenges a Kansas law (SB95) banning the most commonly used method of ending a pregnancy in the second trimester—a law that could force some women to [...]
Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice v. Cline
(REVISED 10.23.2019) This lawsuit challenged an Oklahoma law that would have required physicians providing medication abortions to use an obsolete protocol that does not meet the current standard of care and is less safe and more [...]
Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A., et al. v. Schmidt, et al.
In 2013, Kansas passed a law containing more than a dozen harmful measures, including redefining what constituted a medical emergency in a way that would have required many pregnant women in life-threatening situations to wait [...]
MKB Management, Inc. v. Burdick
(REVISED 6.2.2016) In 2013, North Dakota passed a blatantly unconstitutional ban on pre-viability abortion that would prohibit abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Physicians violating the ban would face up to five [...]
Edwards v. Beck
(REVISED 10.25.2022) This case was a challenge to a 12-week abortion ban passed by the Arkansas Legislature in 2013. The law required that a doctor perform an ultrasound prior to terminating a pregnancy and attempt [...]
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest v. Streur, et al.
(REVISED 03.21.2019) This lawsuit successfully challenged a regulation that would have prevented most low-income women in Alaska seeking medically necessary abortion services from receiving Medicaid coverage. In 2001, the Alaska Supreme Court held that withholding [...]
Stuart et al. v. Camnitz
(REVISED 6.2.2016) North Carolina passed a law in 2011 that prohibits a woman from obtaining an abortion unless her physician, during the course of an ultrasound procedure and while the woman is on an examination [...]
Planned Parenthood et al. v. Abbott
Texas passed House Bill 2 in 2013, which requires that abortion providers obtain admitting privileges at local hospitals and mandates a medically obsolete method of medication abortion. Laws that require abortion providers to have admitting [...]
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Jackson Women’s Health Organization, et al. v. Mary Currier, et al.
(REVISED 02.01.2019) This lawsuit challenged Mississippi's attempt to end legal abortion in the state by attempting to shut down its one remaining abortion clinic. Mississippi passed a law in 2012 explicitly intended to shut down [...]
State: Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. et al. v. Robert Moser, M.D et al.
(REVISED 1.19.22) This case challenges a regulatory scheme that would have gone into effect on November 14, 2011. If enforced, the scheme would prevent the provision of abortion services in any medical establishment that does [...]
MKB Management Corp et al. v. Burdick et al.
North Dakota passed a law in 2011 that would effectively ban all medication abortions in the state. Even if the law did not completely ban this type of abortion care, it would require doctors to [...]
Federal: Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. et al. v. Robert Moser, M.D et al.
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 [...]
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