HOPE MEDICAL GROUP FOR WOMEN v. EDWARDS

Civ. A. No. 94-1129.

860 F.Supp. 1149 (1994)

HOPE MEDICAL GROUP FOR WOMEN, on behalf itself and the Medicaid-eligible women of the State of Louisiana to whom it provides health care; Ifeanyi Charles Okpalobi, M.D., on behalf of himself and his Medicaid-eligible patients seeking abortions; and Zora H. (a pseudonym), on behalf of herself v. Edwin EDWARDS, Governor of the State of Louisiana, Richard Ieyoub, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana; Rose Forrest, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals; in their official capacities and their successors.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

July 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney M. Bach, Bach & Wasserman, Metairie, LA, William E. Rittenberg, New Orleans, LA, and Simon Heller and Terri James, New York City, for plaintiff.

Roy A. Mongrue, Jr., Dept. of Justice, Richard P. Ieyoub, Louisiana Dept. of Justice, Div. of Risk Litigation, Mary Patricia Jones, Louisiana Dept. of Justice, Crim. Div., and Richard Allen Sherburne, Jr., Louisiana, Dept. of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, for defendant.


REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

LIVAUDAIS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Hope Medical Group for Women, on behalf of itself and the Medicaid-eligible women of the State of Louisiana to whom it provides health care, Ifeanyi Charles Okpalobi, M.D., on behalf of himself and his Medicaid-eligible patients seeking abortions, and Zora H., on behalf of herself, have filed a motion for a preliminary injunction prohibiting defendants from enforcing LSA-R.S. 40:1299.34.5...

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