Cox v. Stanton

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

LARKINS, District Judge:

This is an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which plaintiff seeks damages and injunctive relief for alleged deprivations of her constitutional rights resulting from a sterilization operation. She also seeks individually and as representative of the class similarly situated to have this Court declare the Sterilization Statute of North Carolina, N.C.G.S. §§ 35-36 through 35-57, unconstitutional on its face and as applied.

Plaintiff is a 27 year old black woman, born September 26, 1946. On November 24, 1964, shortly after her…