Legal Opinion
Summit Medical Associates, P.C. v. Pryor
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 15, 1999No. 98-6129PublishedCited by 259 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
The central issue raised in this interlocutory appeal is whether Alabama’s Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity bars this suit in federal court against the Governor, the Attorney General, and the District Attorney challenging the Alabama Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997 (“partial-birth abortion statute”) and the Abortion of Viable Unborn Child Act (“post-viability abortion statute”). We hold that Appellees’ challenge to the statutes’ criminal liability provisions falls squarely within the exception to the Eleventh Amendment embodied in Ex parte Young, 209 U.S.…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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- Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. HaldermanSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
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3Cited by259 opinions
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