Legal Opinion
Women's Medical Professional Corp. v. Voinovich
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 18, 1997No. Nos. 96-3157, 96-3159PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKennedy, J., joined by Brown, J.,
BOGGS, J. (pp. 211-19), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.
This case involves a facial challenge to the constitutionality of House Bill 135 (“Act”), which was enacted by the Ohio General Assembly on August 16, 1995, and was to have gone into effect on November 14, 1995. The District Court held unconstitutional the three major portions of the Act: (1) the ban on the use of the “dilation and extraction” (D & X) abortion procedure; (2) the ban on the performance of post-viability abortions; and (3) the viability testing requirement. The District Court further…
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- United States v. SalernoSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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3Cited by2 opinions
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