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