CHICO FEM. WOMEN'S HLTH. CR. v. BUTTE GLENN MED. S.

Civ. No. S-81-42 MLS.

557 F.Supp. 1190 (1983)

CHICO FEMINIST WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER, a California non-profit corporation; Lorene Reed, for herself and as representative of the class of women similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. BUTTE GLENN MEDICAL SOCIETY, an unincorporated association; Drs. Jerome Weinbaum, William Reed, Dennis Dalisky, Joseph Brooks, Homer Heath, Thomas Lorenz, Dale Ritter, and Stephen Cowdrey; Joanne Cowdrey; N.T. Enloe Memorial Hospital, a California non-profit corporation; and Norcal Mutual Insurance Company, a California corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. California.

February 23, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Merin, Cathleen A. Williams, Kanter, Williams, Merin & Dickstein, Sacramento, Cal., Paul T. Persons, Chico, Cal., for plaintiffs.

David R. Harrison, Steven A. Lewis, Marsha L. Morrow, Michael P. McKisson, Long & Levit, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants Butte Glenn Medical Soc., Drs. Jerome Weinbaum, William Reed, Dennis Dalisky, Joseph Brooks, Homer Heath, Thomas Lorenz and Dale Ritter.

James B. Young, John F. McLean, Emmett C. Stanton, M. Robert Bragin, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Norcal Mut. Ins. Co.

Charity Kenyon, John J. Hannegan, John S. Gilmore, Diepenbrock, Wulff, Plant & Hannegan, Sacramento, Cal., for defendant N.T. Enloe Memorial Hosp., Inc.

Terry A. Appling, Greve, Clifford, Diepenbrock & Paras, Sacramento, Cal., Delbert M. Siemsen, Butte County Counsel, Oroville, Cal., Laurence L. Angelo, Bolling, Walter & Gawthrop, Sacramento, Cal., for defendant Joanne Cowdrey.

Carol Hunter, Deputy Atty. Gen., Sacramento, Cal., for defendant Stephen Cowdrey.

John Q. Brown, Weintraub, Genshlea, Hardy, Erich & Brown, Sacramento, Cal., Long & Levit, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Dr. Dennis Dalisky.


OPINION AND ORDER

MILTON L. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.

The Chico Feminist Women's Health Center ["Center"] is a non-profit clinic located in Chico, California, which offers a broad range of health services to women in Northern California, Southern Oregon and Western Nevada. Included among those services is the provision of elective vacuum aspiration abortions. Lorene Reed is a Butte County resident who sought and obtained an abortion at the Center.

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