DOE v. POELKER

No. 74-1232.

497 F.2d 1063 (1974)

Jane DOE, Appellant, v. John H. POELKER, Mayor of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, and R. Dean Wochner, M.D., Director of the Department of Health and Hospitals and Acting Hospital Commissioner of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 4, 1974.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Susman, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Eugene P. Freeman, St. Louis, Mo., for appellee.

Before BRIGHT and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 27, 1974.

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for a declaratory judgment and a permanent injunction against implementation of the policies, rules, regulations and procedures barring the performance of abortions in the two public hospitals in the City of St. Louis, Missouri. From an order dismissing the complaint for lack of standing and mootness, Doe appeals. For the reasons hereinafter expressed, we reverse....

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