Legal Opinion
Blackard v. Memphis Area Medical Center for Women, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 24, 2001No. 00-5326PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CLAY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, Michael, Sharon and Ashley Blackard, filed the instant action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee alleging that Defendants, Memphis Area Medical Center for Women, Inc. (“MCW”) and Fazel Ma-*570nejwala, M.D., violated the Tennessee Parental Consent for Abortion by Minors Act (the “Act” or the “Parental Consent Act”), Tennessee Code Annotated §§ 37-10-301 to -307 (1996). Plaintiffs claim that Defendants performed an abortion on Ashley Blackard, who was then a seventeen-year-old minor, without the consent of her parents,…
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