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GARY-NORTHWEST INDIANA WOMEN'S SERVICES v. BOWEN

No. H 74-289.

496 F.Supp. 894 (1980)

The GARY-NORTHWEST INDIANA WOMEN'S SERVICES, INC.; William R. Lewis, M. D.; Jane Doe; Mary Roe; Brigette Coe; and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Otis BOWEN, Governor of the State of Indiana; Henry Kowalczyk, Lake County Prosecutor; Indiana State Board of Health; William T. Paynter, M. D., State Health Commissioner and the Executive Officer of the Indiana State Board of Health; Theodore Sendak, Attorney General of the State of Indiana; Their Agents, Assigns, Successors, Representatives, Those acting in concert with them, and all others similarly situated, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Indiana, South Bend Division.

September 12, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Henry Walker, East Chicago, Ind., Julian B. Wilkins, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen., Darrel K. Diamon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., Jack Crawford, Lake County Prosecutor, Crown Point, Ind., for defendants.

Before SPRECHER, Circuit Judge, and ESCHBACH, and SHARP, District Judges.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ALLEN SHARP, District Judge.

An abortion clinic, its operator, and certain pregnant women brought this class action challenging the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Indiana abortion statute, IC 35-1-58.5. This action was originally filed on November 13, 1974. A three-judge district court was convened pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2281.1

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