PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA, INC.; Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States, in his official capacity, Defendant-Appellant,
v.
City and County of San Francisco, Plaintiff-intervenor-Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted October 20, 2005.
Filed January 31, 2006.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Peter D. Keisler, Kevin V. Ryan, Gregory G. Katsas (argued), Marleigh D. Dover, Catherine Y. Hancock, Teal Luthy Miller, Jeffrey A. Wadsworth, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington DC, for the defendant-appellant.
Eve C. Gartner (argued), Roger K. Evans, Mimi Liu, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., New York, NY; Helene Krasnoff, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., Washington DC; Beth H. Parker, Teresa Federer, Rachel Sommovilla, Bingham McCutchen LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.
Jay Alan Sekulow, Stuart J. Roth, Colby M. May, Walter M. Weber, American Center for Law and Justice, Washington D.C., for amici curiae American Center of Law and Justice and various members of Congress in support of defendant-appellant.
Steven W. Fitschen, The National Legal Foundation, Virginia Beach, VA, for amicus curiae The National Legal Foundation in support of defendant-appellant.
James Bopp, Jr., Thomas J. Marzen, Richard E. Coleson, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for amicus curiae Horatio R. Storer Foundation, Inc. in support of defendant-appellant.
Julie Shotzbarger, Thomas More Law Center, Ann Arbor, MI, for amicus curiae Thomas More Law Center in support of defendant-appellant.
Teresa S. Collett, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN, for amici curiae the Christian Medical and Dental Society and the Catholic Medical Association in support of defendant-appellant.
James Joseph Lynch Jr., Brad Dacus, James Griffiths, Pacific Justice Institute, Sacramento, CA, for amici curiae Margie Riley and Laurette Elsburry in support of defendant-appellant.
Dennis J. Herrera, Joanne C. Hoeper, Aleeta Van Runkle, Kathleen S. Morris, Office of the City Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff/intervenor-appellee.
Kurt G. Calia, Gregory M. Lipper, Kimberly S. McNish, Covington & Burling, Washington DC; David M. Jolley, Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA; Margaret C. Crosby, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, Inc., San Francisco, CA; Susan Frietsche, Stacey I. Young, Women's Law Project, Pittsburgh, PA; David S. Cohen, Women's Law Project, Philadelphia, PA, for amici curiae the California Medical Association, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, and seventy-five individual physicians in support of plaintiff-appellees.
Before REINHARDT, THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents a challenge to the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, Pub.L. No. 108-105, 117 Stat. 1201 (codified at 18 U.S.C. § 1531). We, like every other federal court that has considered the question, conclude that both the Constitution and the law as established by the Supreme Court require us to hold the Act unconstitutional. Unlike the other courts...
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