DOE v. SCOTT

No. 70 C 395.

310 F.Supp. 688 (1970)

Jane DOE and Sally Roe, suing on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, and David N. Danforth, M.D., Charles Fields, M.D., Ralph M. Wynn, M.D., and Frederick P. Zuspan, M.D., suing on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. William J. SCOTT, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, and Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, Defendants, Bart Heffernan, Intervening Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

March 27, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sybille Fritzsche, Susan Grossman, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs; Marshall Patner, Patner & Karaganis, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., of Illinois, Chicago, Ill., Frank McGarr and Bernard Genis, Asst. Attys. Gen., Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., James C. Murray and Daniel Coman, Asst. State's Attys., for defendants.

Dennis J. Horan, Thomas M. Crisham, and Jerome A. Frazel, Chicago, Ill., for intervening defendant Bart Heffernan.

Gordan H. S. Scott, Legal Aid Bureau, Chicago, Ill., for intervening plaintiff Mary Poe.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTIONS FOR LEAVE TO INTERVENE AND FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER.

ROBSON, District Judge.

The petitioner moves for leave to intervene as a plaintiff in this declaratory judgment action challenging the constitutionality of the Illinois abortion law. Ill.Rev.Stat.1967, ch. 38 § 23-1. She further asks this court to issue a temporary restraining order enjoining the defendants from prosecuting a named doctor, who is a plaintiff...

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