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PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED. v. AGENCY FOR INT. DEV.

No. 87 Civ. 0248 (JMW).

670 F.Supp. 538 (1987)

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA, INC.; Planned Parenthood Center of El Paso; Stewart R. Mott; Stephen L. Isaacs, Sosamma Lindsay and Rebecca Ramos, on Behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, and Jane Doe, on Behalf of herself and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT and M. Peter McPherson, as Administrator of the Agency for International Development, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 29, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard M. Fry, General Counsel, Stephen R. Tisa, Atty., Agency for Intern. Development, Washington, D.C., for defendants; Paula A. Sweeney and Harriet Goldberg, Asst. U.S. Attys., of counsel.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty., S.D. N.Y., for U.S.

Roger K. Evans, Eve Paul and Dara Klassel, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York City, Walter B. Slocombe, Geoffrey Judd Vitt and Julia L. Porter, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs; Harriet Pilpel, New York City, of counsel.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WALKER, District Judge:

Introduction

This case raises the question, among others, of the circumstances under which the courts should refrain from entering the realm of foreign policy committed to the political branches of government. In their Complaint, plaintiffs attack the statutory and constitutional validity of (i) a Presidential policy denying federal assistance to foreign...

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