Jack Wayne Butler v. Tennessee Board of Nursing

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “not every burden creates a ‘substantial obstacle’” and “even regulations with a minimal benefit are unconstitutional only where they present a substantial obstacle to abortion”
• noting Doe 1, driven from practice by Act 620, performed 2,100 abortions per year
• noting Doe 1, driven from practice by Act 620, performed 2,100 abortions per year
• “[W]hen abortion shows up, application of the rules of law grows opaque.” (Higginbotham, J., dissenting)
• noting 10,000 abortions in Louisiana per year
• noting 10,000 abortions in Louisiana per year

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).