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No. 18-483October Term 2018Decided May 28, 2019

Docket 18-483October Term 2018 (2018–2019)

Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al., Petitioners v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc., et al.

from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Case status

Current stage
Decided
Latest event
Decision released May 28, 2019
Case Accepted
Arguments
Decision ReleasedMay 28, 2019
What it's about

from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Question presented

1. Whether the court of appeals’ holding that Indiana’s requirements for the disposal of embryonic and fetal tissue fails rational basis review under the Due Process Clause warrants this Court’s review, where there is no meaningful circuit conflict, where a decision by this Court would provide no guidance to the lower courts currently considering more expansive challenges to similar statutes, and where the court of appeals properly applied well-established legal principles in concluding that Indiana’s statutory scheme does not rationally further its asserted interest. 2. Whether the court of appeals’ decision striking down a prohibition on a woman obtaining a pre-viability abortion where Indiana disapproves of her reason for doing so warrants review by this Court, where there is no conflict or even any other decision on the issue among courts of appeals and where the court below applied settled precedent from this Court that bars states from prohibiting women from terminating a pregnancy before viability.

Case path

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit / Decision released May 28, 2019

Area

Decided Supreme Court case

Timing

Decided May 28, 2019

The Court released its decision on May 28, 2019 without hearing oral argument.