SIMOPOULOS v. VIRGINIA

No. 81-185.

462 U.S. 506 (1983)

SIMOPOULOS v. VIRGINIA

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 15, 1983


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Lucas argued the cause for appellant. With him on the briefs was William P. Marshall.

William G. Broaddus, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Virginia, argued the cause for appellee. With him on the brief were Gerald L. Baliles, Attorney General, and Thomas D. Bagwell and Julia Krebs-Markrich, Assistant Attorneys General.*

Dennis J. Horan, Victor G. Rosenblum, Patrick A. Trueman, and Thomas J. Marzen filed a brief for Americans United for Life as amicus curiae urging affirmance.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed by Alan Ernest for the Legal Defense Fund for Unborn Children; by Phyllis N. Segal, Judith I. Avner, and Jemera Rone for the National Organization for Women et al.; by David B. Hopkins for the American Public Health Association; by Nancy Reardan for Women Lawyers of Sacramento et al.; and by Susan Frelich Appleton and Paul Brest for Certain Law Professors.


JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.

We have considered today mandatory hospitalization requirements for second-trimester abortions in City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc., ante, p. 416, and Planned Parenthood Assn. of Kansas City, Mo., Inc. v. Ashcroft, ante, p. 476. The principal issue here is whether Virginia's mandatory hospitalization requirement is constitutional...

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