Legal Opinion
Leavitt v. Jane L.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 17, 1996No. 95-1242PublishedCited by 235 opinions
1Per curiam
The State of Utah seeks review of a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit which declared invalid a provision of Utah law regulating abortions “[a]fter 20 weeks gestational age.” Utah Code Ann. §76-7-302(3) (1995). *138The court made that declaration, not on the ground that the provision violates federal law, but rather on the ground that the provision was not severable from another provision of the same statute, purporting to regulate abortions up to 20 weeks’ gestational age, which had been struck down as unconstitutional. The court’s severability ruling was based on its view that…
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