Richmond Medical Center for Women v. Gilmore

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the “D & E procedure likely is encompassed within the Act’s ban”; finding an undue burden under Casey as a result
• stating that “in performing a D & E, a physician may intentionally ‘deliver’ a still-attached fetal limb into the vaginal canal before the limb is detached”
• granting preliminary injunction because “there is certainly grave doubt that the term ‘substantial portion thereof supplies the kind of notice requirement to avoid a finding of vagueness- or whether the term is sufficient to prevent arbitrary prosecution”
• “An ALJ cannot arbitrarily substitute his own judgment for 12 competent medical opinion, and he must not succumb to the temptation to play doctor and make his 13 own independent medical findings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).