PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA v. AGENCY FOR INTERN. DEV.

No. 1524, Docket 90-7274.

915 F.2d 59 (1990)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 19, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger K. Evans, New York City (Eve W. Paul, Dara Klassel, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York City, Walter B. Slocombe, Albert G. Lauber, Jr., Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, D.C., and Harriet F. Pilpel, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Stacey J. Moritz, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Otto G. Obermaier, U.S. Atty. for S.D.N.Y. and Edward T. Ferguson, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

James F. Fitzpatrick, New York City (Margaret T. Burns and Gwyn F. Murray, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., of counsel), filed a brief for amici curiae Ass'n for Voluntary Surgical Contraception, Family Health Intern., Alan Guttmacher Institute, Intern. Projects Assistance Services, Intern. Women's Health Coalition, Pathfinder Fund, Population Council and Population Crisis Committee.

Norman Siegel, New York City (Arthur Eisenberg and Catherine Weiss, New York Civ. Liberties Union, New York City, of counsel), Rachael Pine, New York City (Ellen K. Goetz, American Civ. Liberties Union, New York City, of counsel), filed a brief for amici curiae American Civ. Liberties Union, New York Civ. Liberties Union, Fund for Free Expression, Professional Rights Committee of American Soc. of Journalists and Authors, Inc. and P.E.N. American Center.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, MINER and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.


MINER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. ("Planned Parenthood"), Planned Parenthood Center of El Paso, Stewart R. Mott, Stephen L. Isaacs, Sosamma Lindsay and Jane Doe appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Walker, C.J., sitting by designation) dismissing the complaint in this action for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted...

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