PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN, INC. v. KAUL

No. 19-1835.

942 F.3d 793 (2019)

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Joshua L. KAUL, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Appeal of: Wisconsin Legislature, Proposed Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 7, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan J. Kohlmann , Attorney, Jenner & Block LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Incorporated, Natalee Hartwig, Sara Beringer.

Andrew Noll , Attorney, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, Diana Salgado , Attorney, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York, NY, Tamara B. Packard , Attorney, Lester A. Pines , Attorney, Pines Bach LLP, Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Jeffrey Matthew Harris , Attorney, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Arlington, VA, for Appellant.

Brian Patrick Keenan , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Flaum, Sykes, and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


A state can speak in litigation only through its agents and may select its agents without the interference of the federal courts. Typically, a state chooses to designate a singular attorney general to defend its interests, but nothing in the United States Constitution mandates this procedure, or even the existence of an attorney...

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