Legal Opinion
Akron Center for Reproductive Health v. City of Akron
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided February 8, 1985No. C78-155PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
DOWD, District Judge.
The Court has before it the motion of plaintiffs’ counsel for an award of attorney fees following plaintiffs’ prosecution of an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 attacking the constitutionality of an ordinance adopted by the City of Akron in 1978 regulating abortions within Akron.
The plaintiffs are three Ohio corporations that operate out-patient abortion clinics in Akron and a physician who has performed abortions at one of the clinics. The defendants are the City of Akron, its may- or and director of public health and the police prosecutor of…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Hensley v. EckerhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Blum v. StensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Roe v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Hutto v. FinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Doe v. BoltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by11 opinions
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