Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Brinton Lucas (argued), Sharon Swingle , Lowell V. Sturgill Jr. , and Karen Schoen , Appellate Staff; David L. Anderson , United States Attorney; Hashim M. Mooppan , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.
Mark Rienzi (argued), Eric C. Rassbach , Lori H. Windham , Diana M. Vern , Chase T. Harrington , and Chris Pagliarella , The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellant The Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence.
Kenneth J. Connelly (argued), David A. Cortman , and Kevin H. Theriot , Alliance Defending Freedom, Scottsdale, Arizona; Gregory S. Baylor and Christen M. Price , Alliance Defending Freedom, Washington, D.C.; Brian R. Chavez-Ochoa , Chavez-Ochoa Law Offices Ins., Valley Springs, California; for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellant March for Life Education and Defense Fund.
Karli A. Eisenberg (argued) and Nimrod Pitsker Elias , Deputy Attorneys General; Kathleen Boergers , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Michael L. Newman , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento, California; William Tong , Attorney General; Maura Murphy Osborne , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut; Kathleen Jennings , Attorney General; Ilona Kirshon , Deputy State Solicitor; Jessica M. Willey and David J. Lyons , Deputy Attorneys General; Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware; Karl A. Racine , Attorney General; Loren L. AliKhan , Solicitor General; Caroline S. Van Zile , Deputy Solicitor General; Graham E. Phillips , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Washington, D.C.; Clare Connors , Attorney General; Erin Lau , Deputy Attorney General; Department of the Attorney General, Honolulu, Hawaii; Kwame Raoul , Attorney General; Elizabeth Morris , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, Illinois; Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General; Steven M. Sullivan , Solicitor General; Kimberly S. Cammarata , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Attorney General's Office, Baltimore, Maryland; Keith Ellison , Attorney General; Jacob Campion , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; Letitia James , Attorney General; Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General; Lisa Landau , Bureau Chief, Health Care Bureau; Steven C. Wu , Deputy Solicitor General; Ester Murdukhayeva , Assistant Solicitor General; Office of the Attorney General, New York, New York; Joshua H. Stein , Attorney General; Sripriya Narasimhan , Deputy General Counsel; Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina; Peter F. Neronha , Attorney General; Michael W. Field , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Providence, Rhode Island; Thomas J. Donovan Jr. , Attorney General; Eleanor Spottswood , Assistant Attorney General; Attorney General's Office, Montpelier, Vermont; Mark R. Herring , Attorney General; Toby J. Heytens , Solicitor General; Samuel T. Towell , Deputy Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia; Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General; Jeffrey T. Sprung and Alicia O. Young , Assistant Attorneys General; Office of the Attorney General, Seattle, Washington; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Dwight G. Duncan , Colbe Mazzarella , North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, for Amici Curiae Residents and Families of Residents at Homes of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Ken Paxton , Attorney General; Jeffrey C. Mateer , First Assistant Attorney General; Kyle D. Hawkins , Solicitor General; Jason R. LaFond , Assistant Solicitor General; Office of the Attorney General, Austin, Texas; Steve Marshall , Attorney General of Alabama; Leslie Rutledge , Attorney General of Arkansas; Christopher M. Garr , Attorney General of Idaho; Lawrence Wasden , Attorney General of Idaho; Jeff Landry , Attorney General of Louisiana; Eric Schmitt , Attorney General of Missouri; Tim Fox , Attorney General of Montana; Doug Peterson , Attorney General of Nebraska; Mike Hunter , Attorney General of Oklahoma; Alan Wilson , Attorney General of South Carolina; Sean Reyes , Attorney General of Utah; Patrick Morrisey , Attorney General of West Virginia; for Amici Curiae States of Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia.
Miles E. Coleman , Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Greenville, South Carolina, for Amici Curiae Constitutional Law Scholars.
Stephanie N. Taub and Lea E. Patterson , First Liberty Institute, Plano, Texas, for Amicus Curiae First Liberty Institute.
Daniel L. Chen , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, California; Paul Collins and Robert E. Dunn , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Palo Alto, California; for Amicus Curiae Religious Sisters of Mercy.
Elizabeth O. Gill , ACLU Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, California; Minouche Kandel , ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Brigitte Amiri , ACLU Foundation, New York, New York; David Loy , ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties, San Diego, California; for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Northern California, ACLU of Southern California, ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, Anti-Defamation League, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and National Urban League.
Priscilla Joyce Smith , Yale Law School, Brooklyn, New York, for Amicus Curiae Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School.
Jamie A. Levitt and Rhiannon N. Batchelder , Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae American Association of University Women, Service Employees International Union, and 16 Additional Professional, Labor, and Student Associations.
Diana Kasdan and Joel Dodge , Center for Reproductive Rights, New York, New York; Dariely Rodriguez , Dorian Spence , and Phylicia H. Hill , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Center for Reproductive Rights, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, California Women's Law Center, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Latinojustice PRLDEF, Lawyers for Civil Rights, Legal Momentum, Legal Voice, Mississippi Center for Justice, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Public Counsel, and Women's Law Project.
Maura Healey , Attorney General; Elizabeth N. Dewar , State Solicitor; Jonathan B. Miller , Jon Burke , and Julia E. Kobick , Assistant Attorneys General; Elizabeth Carnes Flynn , Special Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Boston, Massachusetts; Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Des Moines, Iowa; Aaron M. Frey , Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, Maine; Gurbir S. Grewal , Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Trenton, New Jersey; Hector Balderas , Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Josh Shapiro , Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; for Amici Curiae Massachusetts, Iowa, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.
Fatima Gross Graves , Gretchen Borchelt , Michelle Banker , and Sunu Chandy , National Women's Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Jane Liu , National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, Washington, D.C.; Sequoia Ayala and Jill Heaviside , Sisterlove Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; Jeffrey Blumenfeld , Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Washington, D.C.; Naomi D. Barrowclough , Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Roseland, New Jersey; for Amici Curiae National Women's Law Center, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Sisterlove Inc., and National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum.
Bruce H. Schneider , Michele L. Pahmer , and Giliana Keller , Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae Brief of Health Professional Organizations, American Nurses Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Nursing, American Academy of Pediatrics, Physicians for Reproductive Health, and California Medical Association.
Leah R. Bruno , Alan S. Gilbert , Cicely R. Miltich , and Jacqueline A. Giannini , Dentons US LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Joel D. Siegel , Dentons US LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Amici Curiae U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce and National Association for Female Executives.
Cindy Nesbit , The Sikh Coalition, New York, New York; Sirine Shebaya , Nimra Azmi , Muslim Advocates, Washington, D.C.; Richard B. Katskee , Carmen N. Green , and Alison Tanner , Americans United for Separate of Church and State; for Amici Curiae Religious and Civil-Rights Organizations.
Barbara J. Parker , City Attorney; Maria Bee , Erin Bernstein , Malia McPherson , and Caroline Wilson ; Office of the City Attorney, Oakland, California; James R. Williams , County Counsel; Greta S. Hansen , Laura S. Trice , and Lorraine Van Kirk , San Jose, California; Office of the County Counsel, San Jose, California; for Amici Curiae 14 Cities, Counties, and Local Agencies.
Dissent by Judge Kleinfeld
