DOE v. GENERAL HOSPITAL OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 24011.

434 F.2d 427 (1970)

Mary DOE et al., Appellants, v. GENERAL HOSPITAL OF the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

May 15, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Michael Nussbaum, with whom Miss Caroline Nickerson, Washington, D. C., was on the motion for appellants.

Messrs. Charles T. Duncan, Corporation Counsel, Hubert B. Pair, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, and David P. Sutton, Asst. Corporation Counsel, for appellees.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, McGOWAN and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges, in chambers.


BAZELON, Chief Judge:

This is a motion to hold respondents, various persons connected with the administration of D.C. General Hospital,1 in civil contempt. At an earlier stage of this litigation, the district court granted preliminary injunctive relief to the class of indigent women resident in the District of Columbia who seek therapeutic abortions at D.C. General Hospital.2 Respondents were ordered simply...

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