West Alabama Women's Center v. Miller, 2:15cv497-MHT. (2016)
Court: District Court, M.D. Alabama
Number: infdco20161121596
Visitors: 14
Filed: Nov. 18, 2016
Latest Update: Nov. 18, 2016
Summary: AMENDED PRELIMINARY—INJUNCTION ORDER MYRON H. THOMPSON , Ditsrict Judge . Having reassessed its ruling under Ex Parte Young , 209 U.S. 123 (1908) and Summit Medical Associates, P.C. v. Pryor, 180 F.3d 1326 (11th Cir. 1999), which provide that an injunction may only issue against a state officer to restrain him from enforcing an unconstitutional statute if that officer has some responsibility for enforcing the statute, the court concludes that the preliminary injunction should have en
Summary: AMENDED PRELIMINARY—INJUNCTION ORDER MYRON H. THOMPSON , Ditsrict Judge . Having reassessed its ruling under Ex Parte Young , 209 U.S. 123 (1908) and Summit Medical Associates, P.C. v. Pryor, 180 F.3d 1326 (11th Cir. 1999), which provide that an injunction may only issue against a state officer to restrain him from enforcing an unconstitutional statute if that officer has some responsibility for enforcing the statute, the court concludes that the preliminary injunction should have enj..
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AMENDED PRELIMINARY—INJUNCTION ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, Ditsrict Judge.
Having reassessed its ruling under Ex Parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908) and Summit Medical Associates, P.C. v. Pryor, 180 F.3d 1326 (11th Cir. 1999), which provide that an injunction may only issue against a state officer to restrain him from enforcing an unconstitutional statute if that officer has some responsibility for enforcing the statute, the court concludes that the preliminary injunction should have enjoined those defendants who have some responsibility for enforcing each of the challenged statutes. Accordingly, it is ORDERED that the preliminary injunction previously entered (doc. no. 116) is amended as follows:
(1) The motion for a preliminary injunction (doc. no. 53), filed by the plaintiffs, West Alabama Women's Center, Willie J. Parker, M.D., Alabama Women's Center, and Yashica Robinson White, M.D., is granted.
(2) The defendants, the Alabama State Health Officer, the Alabama Attorney General, and the district attorneys for Tuscaloosa and Madison Counties, and all those acting in concert with them are each preliminarily ENJOINED and RESTRAINED from enforcing the State of Alabama's fetal-demise law, 1975 Ala. Code § 26-23G-1 et seq., until further order of the court. This injunction does not extend to the private civil-enforcement provisions of the fetal-demise law.
(3) Defendant, the Alabama State Health Officer, and all those acting in concert with him are each preliminarily ENJOINED and RESTRAINED from enforcing the State of Alabama's school-proximity law, 1975 Ala. Code § 22-21-35.
(4) The bond requirement of Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(c) is waived.
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