The HOPE CLINIC, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
James E. RYAN, Attorney General of Illinois, and Richard K. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, Defendants-Appellants.
Dennis D. Christensen, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
James E. Doyle, Attorney General of Wisconsin, and Diane M. Nicks, District Attorney for Dane County, Wisconsin, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued September 22, 1999.
Decided October 26, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Lorie A. Chaiten, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, Colleen K. Connell (argued), Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees in No. 98-1726.
Simon Heller (argued), Bonnie Scott Jones, Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, New York, NY, Roger K. Evans, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Legal Action for Reproductive Rights, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants in Nos. 99-2528, 99-2533.
Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants in No. 98-1726.
Susan K. Ullman (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees in Nos. 99-2528, 99-2533.
Richard E. Coleson, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for Amicus Curiae.
Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and COFFEY, FLAUM, EASTERBROOK, MANION, KANNE, ROVNER, DIANE P. WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
We must decide whether state laws prohibiting partial-birth abortions are unconstitutionally vague or unduly burden women's rights. Acting without an evidentiary hearing, a district court held the Illinois statute unconstitutional and entered a permanent injunction. Hope Clinic v. Ryan,995 F.Supp. 847 (N.D.Ill.1998). But after a trial, another district court concluded that the Wisconsin statute...
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