HOPE CLINIC v. RYAN

Nos. 98-1726, 99-2528 and 99-2533.

249 F.3d 603 (2001)

The HOPE CLINIC, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James E. RYAN, Attorney General of Illinois, and Richard K. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, Defendants-Appellants. Dennis D. Christensen, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James E. Doyle, Attorney General of Wisconsin, and Diane M. Nicks, District Attorney for Dane County, Wisconsin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

April 26, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lorie A. Chaiten, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, Colleen K. Connell (argued), Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General (argued), Office of Atty. General, Chicago, IL, Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Office of Atty. General Civil Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER, COFFEY, EASTERBROOK, MANION, KANNE, ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, DIANE P. WOOD, TERENCE T. EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

After issuing its decision in Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914, 120 S.Ct. 2597, 147 L.Ed.2d 743 (2000), the Supreme Court remanded these cases to us for reconsideration. See 530 U.S. 1271, 1271, 120 S.Ct. 2738, 2739, 147 L.Ed.2d 1001, 1002 (2000). In response both Illinois and Wisconsin have conceded that their partial-birth-abortion statutes are unconstitutional under the approach the Court adopted in Stenberg...

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