STORMANS INC. v. SELECKY

Nos. 07-36039, 07-36040.

526 F.3d 406 (2008)

STORMANS INC., doing business as Ralph's Thriftway; Rhonda Mesler; Margo Thelen, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Mary SELECKY, Secretary of the Washington State Department of Health; Laurie Jinkins, Assistant Secretary of Washington Health Systems Quality Assurance; George Roe; Susan Tiel Boyer; Dan Connolly; Gary Harris; Vandana Slatter; Rebecca Hille; Rosemarie Duffy, Members of the Washington Board of Pharmacy; Ellis Casson; Deborah Sious Cano-Lee; Jerry Hebert; Shawn Murinko, Commissioners for the Washington Human Rights Commission; Mark Brenman, Executive Director of the Washington Human Rights Commission; Yvonne Lopez Morton acting Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of the State of Washington, Defendants-Appellants, and Judith Billings; Rhiannon Andreini; Jeffrey Schouten; Molly Harmon; Catherine Rosman; Emily Schmidt; Tami Garrard, Defendant-Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

May 1, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kristen K. Waggoner, Esq., Steven T. O'Ban, Esq., Ellis Li & McKinstry, PLLC, Seattle, WA, Benjamin W. Bull, Esq., Amy Smith, Esq., Byron J. Babione, Esq., Alliance Defense Fund, Scottsdale, AZ, Erik W. Stanley, Alliance Defense Fund, Leawood, KS, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Alan D. Copsey, Esq., Joyce A. Roper, Esq., Traci J. Friedl, Esq., AGWA-Office of the Washington Attorney General, Olympia, WA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Sarah A. Dunne, Aaron H. Caplan, Esq., American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, Kelly Susan Reese, Esq., Planned Parenthood of Western Washington, Matthew A. Carvalho, Esq., Rima J. Alaily, Molly A. Terwilliger, Esq., Heller Ehrman, LLP, Lisa M. Stone, Esq., Northwest Women's Law Center, Seattle, WA, for Defendant-Intervenors-Appellants.

Before: T.G. NELSON, A. WALLACE TASHIMA and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.


Order; Dissent by Judge TASHIMA.

ORDER

The Plaintiffs-Appellees filed suit in district court to enjoin the enforcement of Washington Administrative Code 246-863-095(4)(d) and 246-869-010(4)(d). Those regulations, as enforced by the Washington State Board of Pharmacy, prohibit pharmacies and pharmacists from refusing to dispense a contraceptive known as "Plan B" or the "morning after" pill. The district court granted...

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