SUMMIT MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, P.C. v. JAMES

Civil Action No. 97-T-1149-N.

984 F.Supp. 1404 (1998)

SUMMIT MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, P.C., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Fob JAMES, Jr., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

January 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Richard Cohen, Rhonda Brownstein, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, Kathryn Kolbert, Julie Kay, Simon Heller, Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, New York City, David A. Gespass, Kathleen M. Johnson, Johnson & Gespass, Birmingham, AL, for Summit Medical Associates, William H. Knorr, M.D., Beacon Women's Center, New Woman, All Women Health Care.

Algert S. Agricola, Jr., Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Montgomery, AL, Jere L. Beasley, Thomas J. Methvin, P. Leigh O'Dell, Beasley, Wilson, Allen, Main & Crow, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Charles B. Campbell, Albert L. Jordan, Kimberly R. West, Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, William P. Gray, Jr., Gray & Jauregui, Montgomery, AL, for Fob James.

Algert S. Agricola, Jr., Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Montgomery, AL, Charles B. Campbell, Albert L. Jordan, Kimberly R. West, Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, for Bill Pryor, Ellen Brooks.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs, Alabama-based providers of abortion services, challenge the constitutionality of two recently-enacted Alabama abortion statutes under the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, as enforced through 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (West 1994). The first challenged statute is the Alabama Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997, 1975 Ala.Code § 26-23-1 to 26-23-6 (Law.Co-op...

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