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ABORTION RIGHTS MOBILIZATION, INC. v. REGAN

No. 80 Civ. 5990 (RLC).

544 F.Supp. 471 (1982)

ABORTION RIGHTS MOBILIZATION, INC., Lawrence Lader, Harold W. Bostrom, Margaret O. Strahl, M.D., Helen W. Edey, M.D., Ruth P. Smith, National Women's Health Network, Inc., Long Island National Organization for Women — Nassau, Inc., Rabbi Israel Margolies, Reverend Bea Blair, Rabbi Balfour Brickner, Reverend Robert Hare, Reverend Marvin G. Lutz, Laurel Clinic, Inc., Milan M. Vuitch, M.D., Women's Center for Reproductive Health, The Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers, Inc., Harrisburg Reproductive Health Services, Inc., Hagerstown Reproductive Health Services, Inc., Women's Health Services, Inc., Jane C. Delgado, Jennie Rose Lifrieri, Eileen Walsh, Patricia Sullivan Luciano, Marcella Michalski, Chris Niebrzydowski, Judith A. Seibel, Karen DeCrow, and Susan Sherer, Plaintiffs, v. Donald T. REGAN, Secretary of the Treasury, Roscoe L. Egger, Jr., Commissioner of Internal Revenue, United States Catholic Conference, Incorporated, and National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. N. Y.

July 19, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karpatkin, Pollet, Perlmutter & Beil, Marshall Beil, Carol A. Schrager, New York City, Stephen B. Latham, Joyce E. Roop, Brookline, Mass., Sybil Shainwald, New York City, for plaintiffs; Constance E. Cook, Ithaca, N. Y., of counsel.

John S. Martin, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., New York City, for defendants Sec. of the Treasury and Comm. IRS; William J. Brennan, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel.

Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, Roy L. Reardon, Conrad K. Harper, Cynthia G. Beerbower, James Kalb, Richard L. Mattiaccio, David J. Reich, Richard P. Roelofs, Mark G. Cunha, Robert E. Spatt, New York City, for defendants United States Catholic Conference and National Conference of Catholic Bishops; Wilfred R. Caron, Gen. Counsel, U. S. Catholic Conference and National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

OPINION

ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge.

This is an action challenging the constitutionality of the government's enforcement of § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code ("Code"), 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) (1976). Plaintiffs are 29 individuals and organizations concerned about the right of a woman to choose to carry a fetus to term or to abort it and about the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. The complaint names four defendants...

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