PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASS'N OF KANSAS CITY v. ASHCROFT

Nos. 80-1130, 80-1530.

655 F.2d 848 (1981)

PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, INC., Naim S. Kassar, M.D., Reproductive Health Services, Allen S. Palmer, D.O., Appellees, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of State of Missouri, Ralph L. Martin, Prosecuting Attorney of Jackson County, Missouri, Appellants. PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, INC., Naim S. Kassar, M.D., Reproductive Health Services, Allen S. Palmer, D.O., Appellants, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of State of Missouri, Ralph L. Martin, Prosecuting Attorney of Jackson County, Missouri, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., J. Michael Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Jefferson City, Mo., for appellants/cross-appellees.

Frank Susman, Susman, Schermer, Rimmel & Parker, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees/cross-appellants.

Eve W. Paul, Dara Klassel, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., New York City, for amici curiae.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, HENLEY, Circuit Judge, and HARRIS, Senior Judge.


LAY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal and cross-appeal relating to the constitutionality of the Missouri statutes regulating abortion.1 The trial court denied injunctive relief, but issued a declaratory judgment holding all or part of five sections of the Missouri statutes unconstitutional.

Allen S. Palmer, D.O., and Naim S. Kassar, M.D., licensed physicians, and Planned Parenthood and Reproductive Health Services, corporations that...

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