Whole Woman’s Health v. Paxton
(REVISED 1.19.22) This case was a challenge to a Texas ban on the standard procedure for abortion care after about 14-15 weeks. The Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood filed the lawsuit in federal district [...]
June Medical Services v. Gee
(REVISED 12.18.2021) - The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana’s clinic licensing law that forced most of the state’s abortion clinics to close. The law contains more than 1,000 medically unnecessary requirements [...]
Frederick W. Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H. v. Larry Jegley, et al.
(Revised 9.20.21) This case, filed on behalf of a woman’s health care provider in federal district court by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Arkansas, is [...]
Whole Woman’s Health v. Phillips
(REVISED 09.05.2019) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed litigation against the state of Texas in 2016 challenging unconstitutional new regulations that mandate the burial or cremation of embryonic and fetal tissue that results from abortions, miscarriages, or ectopic pregnancy [...]
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands vs. State of Alaska
(REVISED 8.25.2017) This case is a challenge to medically unnecessary Alaska restrictions, passed more than 40 years ago, that ban abortion in outpatient health centers after the first trimester of pregnancy. The restrictions force many women [...]
Bryant, et al. vs. Woodall, et al.
(REVISED 6.22.21) This case is a challenge to a North Carolina ban on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in extremely narrow instances of medical emergency. The case was filed in November 2016 on [...]
Tulsa Women’s Reproductive Clinic v. Drummond (formerly Nova Health Systems v. Cline et al.)
(Updated 03.26.24) On March 12, 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed this lawsuit, finding the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the law because the clinic is no longer a registered business in Oklahoma. The clinic was [...]
Burns v. Cline
(REVISED 6.13.2017) This lawsuit challenged Oklahoma law S.B. 642, an omnibus measure that imposed various unnecessary restrictions and requirements on abortion providers in blatant violation of the Oklahoma Constitution. S.B. 642 was a multi-subject measure that—among other provisions—permitted warrantless searches of abortion [...]
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Adams & Boyle, P.C. et al. v. Slatery, et al.
(Updated 8-12-21) This lawsuit was filed as a challenge to three unconstitutional Tennessee measures designed to close reproductive health care clinics and make abortion harder to obtain. Two of the laws challenged have been permanently [...]
Gainesville Woman Care LLC d/b/a Bread and Roses Women’s Health Center, et al. v. State of Florida, et al.
(REVISED 9.21.2021) Florida passed a law in 2015 forcing a woman to wait a minimum of 24 hours and make at least one additional trip to her health care provider before receiving an abortion. The [...]
Planned Parenthood Arizona, Inc. et al. v. Brnovich, Christ, et al.
(REVISED 7.20.2018) This lawsuit challenged an Arizona state law, SB 1318 (originally scheduled to take effect on July 3, 2015), which would have forced doctors to lie to patients by telling them that it may be possible [...]
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 [...]
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