PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN, INC. v. SCHIMEL

No. 15-1736.

806 F.3d 908 (2015)

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Brad D. SCHIMEL, Attorney General of Wisconsin, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence Jacques Dupuis , Attorney, American Civil Liberty Union of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, Carrie Y. Flaxman , Attorney, Planned Parent Federation of America, Washington, DC, Lester A. Pines , Attorney, Cullen Weston Pines & Bach LLP, Madison, WI, Roger K. Evans , Attorney, Diana Salgado, Attorney, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York, N.Y., for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Brian Patrick Keenan , Attorney, Clayton P. Kawski , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before POSNER, MANION, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


On July 5, 2013, the Governor of Wisconsin signed into law a statute that the Wisconsin legislature had passed the previous month. So far as relates to this appeal the statute prohibits a doctor, under threat of heavy penalties if he defies the prohibition, from performing an abortion (and in Wisconsin only doctors are allowed...

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