Legal Opinion
James Tarsney v. Michael O'Keefe
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 11, 2000No. 99-2986PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
This case was brought by forty-seven individuals seeking declaratory and injunc-tive relief against the State of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Human Services, and Commissioner Michael O’Keefe, including enjoining them from using state funds to pay for certain abortions for low income women. State funds have been used for these abortions since the Minnesota Supreme Court overturned a state statutory scheme which authorized state spending on medical services related to childbirth but prohibited it for1 therapeutic abortions. In this case the plaintiff taxpayers…
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3Cited by1 opinion
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