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Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al., Petitioners v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al.
Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al., Petitioners v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al.
No. 19-1392
Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Alito, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., and Kavanaugh, J., filed concurring opinions. Roberts, C. J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., filed a dissenting opinion.
Attorneys for Respondents
Hillary Anne Schneller
Counsel of Record Center for Reproductive Rights
199 Water Street, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10038
[email protected] (917) 637-3777
Party name: Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al.
Julie Rikelman Center for Reproductive Rights
199 Water Street
22nd Floor
New York, NY 10038
[email protected] 917-637-3670
Party name: Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al.
Other
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Counsel of Record Solicitor General
United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
[email protected] 202-514-2217
Party name: United States
Steven Henry Aden
Counsel of Record Americans United for Life
1150 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
[email protected] 2526732282
Party name: 228 Members of Congress
Brigitte Adrienne Amiri
Counsel of Record American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York, NY 10004-2427
[email protected] 2125197897
Party name: The American Civil Liberties Union and The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi
Jessica Ring Amunson
Counsel of Record Jenner & Block LLP
1099 New York Avenue NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20001
[email protected] 202-639-6023
Party name: Organizations Dedicated to the Fight for Reproductive Justice Mississippi in Action, et al.
David A. Barrett
Counsel of Record Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
55 Hudson Yards
New York, NY 10001
[email protected] 212-446-2300
Party name: Over 500 Women Athletes, The Women’s National Basketball Players Association, et al.
H. Christopher Bartolomucci
Counsel of Record Schaerr | Jaffe LLP
1717 K Street NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006
[email protected] 202-787-1060
Party name: Women Legislators and The Susan B. Anthony List
James Bopp Jr.
Counsel of Record The Bopp Law Firm, PC
The National Building
1 South Sixth Street
Terre Haute, IN 47807
[email protected] 8122322434
Party name: National Right to Life Committee and Louisiana Right to Life Federation
David Christopher Boyle
Counsel of Record PO Box 15143
Long Beach, CA 90815
[email protected] (734)-904-6132
Party name: David Boyle
Kristine Lee Brown
Counsel of Record Attorney At Law
8700 E Jefferson Ave #371703
Denver, CO 80237
[email protected] 302-515-2721
Party name: Connie Weiskopf and Kristine L. Brown
Mary Jane Browning
Counsel of Record MaryBrowning, LLC
214 Cherry Street
Jefferson, MO 65101
[email protected] 5732306945
Party name: Amicus Curiae Hannah S., John S. and Marlene S
Leah R. Bruno
Counsel of Record Dentons US LLP
233 South Wacker Drive
Suite 5900
Chicago, IL 60606
[email protected] 312-876-8000
Party name: Social Science Experts
Renee Kristine Carlson
Counsel of Record True North Legal
2855 Anthony Lane South
Minneapolis, MN 55418
[email protected] 6127898811
Party name: Advancing American Freedom, Inc.; Minnesota Family Council; Center for Political Renewal; The Family Leader (Iowa); Family Heritage Alliance; and Nebraska Family Alliance
Anthony Thomas Caso
Counsel of Record Constitutional Counsel Group
174 W. Lincoln Ave., #620
Anaheim, CA 92805
[email protected] 916-601-1916
Party name: Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
Harold J. Cassidy
Counsel of Record The Cassidy Law Firm
750 Broad Street
Suite 3
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
[email protected] 7327473999
Party name: Care Net, a National Affiliation Organization of 1,200 Pregnancy Help Centers, and Alpha Center, a South Dakota Registered Pregnancy Help Center
Kim Christensen Clark
Counsel of Record Legal Voice
907 Pine Street, Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98101
[email protected] 16026258896
Party name: Legal Voice, Asian Pacific Institute On Gender-based Violence, et at.,
Matthew James Clark
Counsel of Record Alabama Center for Law and Liberty
2213 Morris Ave.
Floor 1
Birmingham, AL 35203
[email protected] 256-510-1828
Party name: Alabama Center for Law and Liberty
Frederick W. Claybrook Jr.
Counsel of Record Claybrook, LLC
700 Sixth St., NW, Ste. 430
Washington, DC 20001
[email protected] 202-250-3833
Party name: Pacific Justice Institute
Frederick W. Claybrook Jr.
Counsel of Record Claybrook, LLC
700 Sixth St., NW, Ste. 430
Washington, DC 20001
[email protected] 202-250-3833
Party name: Joseph W. Dellapenna
Frederick W. Claybrook Jr.
Counsel of Record Claybrook, LLC
700 Sixth St., NW, Ste. 430
Washington, DC 20001
[email protected] 202-250-3833
Party name: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, et al.
Kimberlee Wood Colby
Counsel of Record Christian Legal Society
8001 Braddock Rd., Suite 302
Springfield, VA 22151
[email protected] 703-894-1087
Party name: Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law
Teresa Stanton Collett
Counsel of Record University of St. Thomas School of Law
MSL 400
1000 LaSalle Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
[email protected] 6512712958
Party name: Prolife Center at the University of St. Thomas
Teresa Stanton Collett
Counsel of Record 2189 Sargent Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105
[email protected] 6512712958
Party name: 240 Women Scholars and Professionals, and Prolife Feminist Organizations
Sean Richard Collier
Counsel of Record Collier Legal, LLC
12 Granary Road
Stockton, NJ 08559
[email protected] 9085817180
Party name: Good Counsel, Inc.
Charles Justin Cooper
Counsel of Record Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
1523 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
[email protected] 202-220-9600
Party name: Ethics and Public Policy Center
Carolyn Frances Corwin
Counsel of Record Covington and Burling LLP
One City Center
850 Tenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-4956
[email protected] 202-662-5338
Party name: Birth Equity Organizations and Scholars
Meredith Leigh Di Liberto
Counsel of Record Judicial Watch, Inc.
425 Third Street SW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20024
[email protected] 2026465172
Party name: Judicial Watch, Inc.
Mario Alberto Diaz
Counsel of Record Concerned Women for America
1000 N. Payne St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
[email protected] 2024887000
Party name: Concerned Women for America
Farah Christina Diaz-Tello
Counsel of Record If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
1714 Franklin Street #100-393
Oakland, CA 94612
[email protected] 347-974-7337
Party name: Experts, Researchers, and Advocates Opposing the Criminalization of People Who Have Abortions
Lynn Downey Dowd
Counsel of Record Law Offices of Lynn D. Dowd
29 W Benton Ave
Naperville, IL 60540
[email protected] 6306657851
Party name: Biologists
Lael Ruth Echo-Hawk
Counsel of Record MThirtysix PLLC
700 Pennsylvania Ave. SE
2nd FL – The Yard
Washington, DC 20003
[email protected] (206) 271-0106
Party name: Cecilia Fire Thunder; National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center; the Native American Community Board; and Additional Advocacy Organizations and Individuals
John Allen Eidsmoe
Counsel of Record Foundation for Moral Law
One Dexter Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36064
[email protected] 3343241812
Party name: Foundation for Moral Law, Lutherans for Life
John Allen Eidsmoe
Counsel of Record Foundation for Moral Law
One Dexter Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36104
[email protected] 3342621245
Party name: Foundation for Moral Law
Jessica Lynn Ellsworth
Counsel of Record Hogan Lovells US LLP
555 13th Street, N. W.
Washington, DC 20004
[email protected] 202-637-5886
Party name: American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians
Jonathan English
Counsel of Record 451 7th Street SW
Washington, DC 20410
[email protected] 202-469-0116
Party name: Jonathan English
Andrew Nathan Ferguson
Counsel of Record Attorney at Law
202 North Ninth Street
Richmond, VA 23219
[email protected] 8047867704
Party name: Commonwealth of Virginia
Brian James Field
Counsel of Record Schaerr Jaffe
1717 K Street NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006
[email protected] 202-787-1060
Party name: European Legal Scholars
Clarke David Forsythe
Counsel of Record Americans United for Life
1150 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
[email protected] 3122854568
Party name: Americans United for Life
David F. Forte
Counsel of Record Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
1801 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115
[email protected] 216 403-3298
Party name: Cleveland Lawyers for Life
Catherine M. Foti
Counsel of Record Morvillo, Abramowitz, et al.
565 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017
[email protected] 212-856-9600
Party name: American Society for Legal History and Other Scholars
Alexis Irene Fragosa
Counsel of Record Center for Family and Human Rights
776 Walker Road, Suite E
Great Falls, VA 22066
[email protected] 6262410594
Party name: Center for Family and Human Rights
John Arak Freedman
Counsel of Record Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP
601 Mass. Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
[email protected] 202-942-5316
Party name: 236 Members of Congress
Gary N. Frischling
Counsel of Record Milbank LLP
2029 Century Park East
33rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
[email protected] 424-386-4316
Party name: Reproductive Justice Scholars
Scott William Gaylord
Counsel of Record Elon University School of Law
201 North Greene Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
[email protected] 3362799331
Party name: CatholicVote.org Education Fund
Eugene Martin Gelernter
Counsel of Record Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
[email protected] (212) 336-2000
Party name: Catholics for Choice, et al.
Robert P. George
Counsel of Record Robinson & McElwee, PLLC
700 Virginia Street East, Suite 400
Charleston, WV 25301
[email protected] 6096584510
Party name: Scholars of Jurisprudence John M. Finnis and Robert P. George
Adam Scott Gershenson
Counsel of Record Cooley LLP
500 Boylston Street, 14th Floor
Boston, MA 02116
[email protected] (617) 937-2379
Party name: International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Stephen Gilles
Counsel of Record Quinnipiac University School of Law
275 Mount Carmel Ave.
Hamden, CT 06518
[email protected] 8609928130
Party name: Professor Stephen G. Gilles
Brianne Jenna Gorod
Counsel of Record Constitutional Accountability Center
1200 18th Street, NW
Suite 501
Washington, DC 20036
[email protected] 202 296 6889
Party name: Constitutional Accountability Center
Samuel David Green
Counsel of Record Reason for Life
P.O. Box 500040
Palmdale, CA 93550
[email protected] (661) 524-5770
Party name: Reason for Life
Jon M. Greenbaum
Counsel of Record Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
1500 K Street, NW
9th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
[email protected] 202-662-8315
Party name: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; et al.
Matthew Edwin Gronda
Counsel of Record Attorney at Law
P.O. Box 70
Saint Charles, MI 48655
[email protected] 989-249-0350
Party name: Rep. Steve Carra and 320 State Legislators from 35 States
Mia Tobin Guizzetti Hayes
Counsel of Record Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
1875 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
[email protected] 202-303-1197
Party name: Organizations of Women Lawyers-Women Lawyers on Guard Inc., Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia and National Association of Women Lawyers et al.
Heather Gebelin Hacker
Counsel of Record Hacker Stephens LLP
108 Wild Basin Rd
Suite 250
Austin, TX 78746
[email protected] 512-399-3022
Party name: Professors Mary Ann Glendon and O. Carter Snead
Heather Gebelin Hacker
Counsel of Record Hacker Stephens LLP
108 Wild Basin Rd
Suite 250
Austin, TX 78746
[email protected] 512-399-3022
Party name: Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst, M.D., M.P.H., et al.
John Edward Hall
Counsel of Record Covington & Burling
One CityCenter, 850 Tenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
[email protected] 2026626000
Party name: Feminist Majority Foundation, Abortion Access Front, C.A. Goldberg, PLLC, The National Organization For Women Foundation, The Southern Poverty Law Center, We Engage, Professor David S. Cohen, and Krysten Connon
Erica Worth Harris
Counsel of Record Susman Godfrey, LLP
1000 Louisiana, Suite 5100
Houston, TX 77002-5096
[email protected] 7136519366
Party name: Advocates for Youth, Inc. and Neo Philanthropy, Inc. d/b/a We Testify
Joshua David Hawley
Counsel of Record N/A
115 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
[email protected] 202-224-6154
Party name: Senators Josh Hawley, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz
James L. Hirsen
Counsel of Record 505 S. Villa Real Drive, Suite 101
Anaheim Hills, CA 92807
[email protected] 714-283-8880
Party name: World Faith Foundation and Institute for Faith and Family
Helen H. Hong
Counsel of Record California Department of Justice, Office of Solicitor General
600 West Broadway Street, Suite 1805
San Diego, CA 92101
[email protected] 6197389693
Party name: States of California, et al.
Roberta A. Kaplan
Counsel of Record Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP
350 Fifth Avenue, 63rd Floor
New York, NY 10118
[email protected] 2127630883
Party name: Equal Protection Constitutional Law Scholars Serena Mayeri, Melissa Murray, and Reva Siegel
Theane Evangelis Kapur
Counsel of Record Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP
333 South Grand Avenue
48th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
[email protected] (213) 229-7000
Party name: California Women's Law Center
Richard Brian Katskee
Counsel of Record Americans United for Separation of Church and State
1310 L Street, N.W.
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
[email protected] 202-466-3234
Party name: Americans United for Separation of Church and State, American Humanist Association, Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, and Interfaith Alliance Foundation
Nathan W. Kellum
Counsel of Record Center for Religious Expression
699 Oakleaf Office Lane
Suite 107
Memphis, TN 38117
[email protected] 9016845485
Party name: Center for Religious Expression
Antony B. Kolenc
Counsel of Record 106 S Harwood St
Dallas, TX 75201
[email protected] 2142431781
Party name: 141 International Legal Scholars
William Grayson Lambert
Counsel of Record Office of the Governor
South Carolina State House
1100 Gervais Street
Columbia, SC 29201
[email protected] 8037342100
Party name: Governor Henry McMaster and Eleven Additional Governors
Stephen C. Leckar
Counsel of Record Kalbain Hagerty LLP
888 17th Street. NW
Twelfth Floor
Washington, DC 20006
[email protected] (202) 223-5600
Party name: Anthony Hawks
Jonathan Philip Lienhard
Counsel of Record Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC
15405 John Marshall Highway
Haymarket, VA 20169
[email protected] 15403418808
Party name: March for Life Education and Defense Fund
Emma Lindsay
Counsel of Record Withers Bergman LLP
430 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
[email protected] 212-848-9883
Party name: United Nations Mandate Holders
Paul Benjamin Linton
Counsel of Record 921 Keystone Avenue
Northbrook, IL 60062
[email protected] 8472913848
Party name: Thomas More Society
George Lester Lyon Jr.
Counsel of Record Lukas, Nace, Gutierrez & Sachs, Chartered
1929 Biltmore Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
[email protected] 202-669-0442
Party name: Mary Kay Bacallao Advocating for Unborn Children as Persons
Janice Marie Mac Avoy
Counsel of Record Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
0ne New York Plaza
New York, NY 10004
[email protected] 212-859-8182
Party name: Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, U.S. Association for the Study of Pain, and 27 Scientific and Medical Experts
Rebecca Susan Markert
Counsel of Record Freedom form Religion Foundation
P.O. Box 750
Madison, WI 53701
[email protected] (608) 256-8900
Party name: The Freedom From Religion Foundation, Center for Inquiry, and American Atheists
John P. Mastando III
Counsel of Record Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10153
[email protected] 2123108064
Party name: Current and Former Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Leaders, et al.,
Anna-Rose Mathieson
Counsel of Record California Appellate Law Group LLP
96 Jessie Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
[email protected] 4156496700
Party name: Scholars of Court Procedure
Deanne Elizabeth Maynard
Counsel of Record Morrison & Foerster LLP
2100 L Street, NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20037
[email protected] 202-887-8740
Party name: LGBTQ Organizations
Thomas Ryan McCarthy
Counsel of Record Consovoy McCarthy PLLC
1600 Wilson Boulevard
Suite 700
Arlington, VA 22209
[email protected] (703) 243-9423
Party name: Family Research Council
Julian Lenwood McPhillips Jr.
Counsel of Record McPhillips Shinbaum, LLP
516 S Perry St
Montgomery, AL 36104
[email protected] 3342621911
Party name: Democrats for Life of America Five Democratic Legislators from Five Individual State Legislatures
Patrick Michael McSweeney
Counsel of Record McSweeney, Cynkar & Kachouroff, PLLC
3358 John Tree Hill Rd
Powhatan, VA 23139
[email protected] 7036213300
Party name: Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund
Hiram Alberto Melendez-Juarbe
Counsel of Record P.O. Box 193063
San Juan, PR 00919-3063
[email protected] 787-415-5192
Party name: Campaña Nacional por el Aborto Libre, Seguro y Accesible and other Puerto Rican Organizations
Jonathan B. Miller
Counsel of Record Public Rights Project
4096 Piedmont Avenue, #149
Oakland, CA 94611
[email protected] 6468316113
Party name: Local Governments
Christopher Ernest Mills
Counsel of Record Spero Law LLC
1050 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. #83
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465
[email protected] 8436060640
Party name: American College of Pediatricians and Association of American Physicians & Surgeons
Jonathan F. Mitchell
Counsel of Record Mitchell Law PLLC
111 Congress Avenue
Suite 400
Austin, TX 78701
[email protected] (512) 686-3940
Party name: Texas Right to Life
Kerry Lee Morgan
Counsel of Record Kerry L. Morgan
2915 Biddle Avenue
Suite 200
Wyandotte, MI 48192
[email protected] (734) 281-7100
Party name: LONANG Institute
Robert Joseph Muise
Counsel of Record American Freedom Law Center
PO Box 131098
Ann Arbor, MI 48113
[email protected] 7346353756
Party name: Priests for Life
Andrew C. Nichols
Counsel of Record Charis Lex P.C.
4250 N. Fairfax Dr.
Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22203
[email protected] 571-549-2645
Party name: American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Thomas Gerald Olp
Counsel of Record Thomas More Society
309 W. Washington Street
Suite 1250
Chicago, IL 60606
[email protected] 3127821680
Party name: Illinois Right to Life, et al.
William Jeffrey Olson
Counsel of Record William J. Olson, P.C.
370 Maple Ave. W., Suite 4
Vienna, VA 22180
[email protected] 7033565070
Party name: Intercessors for America including its Intercessor Prayer Partners
Lynn Mara Paltrow
Counsel of Record National Advocates for Pregnant Women
575 8th Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10018
[email protected] 212-255-9252
Party name: National Advocates for Pregnant Women, et al.
Robert M. Palumbos
Counsel of Record Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
[email protected] (215) 979-1000
Party name: National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, and Organizations Representing the Interests of Asian American and Pacific Islander Women
Allan E. Parker Jr.
Counsel of Record The Justice Foundation
8023 Vantage Dr.
Suite 1275
San Antonio, TX 78230
[email protected] 2106147157
Party name: Jewish Prolife Foundation, The Coalition for Jewish Values, Rabbi Yacov David Cohen, Rabbi Chananya Weissman, and Bonnie Chernin (President, Jewish Life League)
Allan E. Parker Jr.
Counsel of Record The Justice Foundation
8023 Vantage Dr.
Suite 1275
San Antonio, TX 78230
[email protected] 2106147157
Party name: 375 Women Injured By Second And Third Trimester Late Term Abortions and Abortion Recovery Leaders
Allan E. Parker Jr.
Counsel of Record The Justice Foundation
8023 Vantage Dr.
Suite 1275
San Antonio, TX 78230
[email protected] 2106147157
Party name: Melinda Thybault, Founder of The Moral Outcry Petition, et al.
Allan E. Parker Jr.
Counsel of Record The Justice Foundation
8023 Vantage Drive
Suite 1275
San Antonio, TX 78230
[email protected] 2106147157
Party name: 375 Women Injured By Second and Third Trimester Late Term Abortions and Melinda Thybault, Individually and Acting on Behalf of 336,214 Signers of The Moral Outcry Petition
Kimberly A. Parker
Counsel of Record Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
2445 M St., NW.
Washington, DC 20037
[email protected] 202-663-6987
Party name: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Medical Association, et al.
Anthony Richard Picarello Jr.
Counsel of Record United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Office of General Counsel
3211 4th Street, NE
Washignton, DC 20017
[email protected] 202-541-3311
Party name: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Other Religious Organizations
Bradley Wayne Pierce
Counsel of Record Foundation to Abolish Abortion
P.O. Box 402
Liberty Hill, TX 78642
[email protected] (512) 598-1092
Party name: Foundation to Abolish Abortion, et al
Gary Scott Pyles
Counsel of Record 2364 Essington Rd, Box 373
Joliet, IL 60435
[email protected] 8153422856
Party name: Scott Pyles
Maura Katherine Quinlan
Counsel of Record 38 Golfview Road
Camp Hill, PA 17011
[email protected] 717-460-8565
Party name: Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation
Maura Katherine Quinlan
Counsel of Record 38 Golfview Road
Camp Hill, PA 17011
[email protected] 717-460-8565
Party name: Catholic Medical Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life
Mark Leonard Rienzi
Counsel of Record The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
1919 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006
[email protected] (202) 955-0095
Party name: The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Arlaine Inez Rockey
Counsel of Record Law Office of Arlaine Rockey
P.O. Box 656
Marshall, NC 28753
[email protected] 8282796735
Party name: ERA-NC Alliance
E. Joshua Rosenkranz
Counsel of Record Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
[email protected] 212-506-5380
Party name: Abortion Care Network, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Medical Students for Choice, National Abortion Federation, Physicians for Reproductive Health and Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.
D. Kent Safriet
Counsel of Record Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC
15405 John Marshall Highway
Haymarket, VA 20169
[email protected] (540) 341-8808
Party name: Christian Medical & Dental Associations
Gene Clayton Schaerr
Counsel of Record Schaerr | Jaffe
1717 K Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006
[email protected] 202-787-1060
Party name: Maureen L. Condic, Ph.D. and the Charlotte Lozier Institute
Elizabeth Brooks Scherer
Counsel of Record P.O. Box 27525
Raleigh, NC 27611
[email protected] 919.755.8790
Party name: Professor Randy Beck
Linda Boston Schlueter
Counsel of Record Trinity Legal Center
1150 N. Loop 1604 W.
Suite 108-208
San Antonio, TX 78248
[email protected] 210-274-5274
Party name: Trinity Legal Center
Jay Alan Sekulow
Counsel of Record American Center for Law and Justice
201 Maryland Avenue, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
[email protected] 2022485407
Party name: American Center for Law & Justice
Jay Alan Sekulow
Counsel of Record American Center for Law and Justice
201 Maryland Avenue, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
[email protected] 2025468890
Party name: Elliot Institute
Jay Alan Sekulow
Counsel of Record American Center for Law and Justice
201 Maryland Avenue, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
[email protected] 20225468890
Party name: American Center for Law and Justice and Bioethics Defense Fund
Jordan Adam Sekulow
Counsel of Record American Center for Law and Justice
201 Maryland Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
[email protected] 202-546-8890
Party name: The European Centre for Law and Justice
Shannon Rose Selden
Counsel of Record Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
919 3rd Avenue
New York, NY 10022
[email protected] 212-909-6000
Party name: International and Comparative Legal Scholars
Jeffrey A. Shafer
Counsel of Record Langdon Law LLC
8913 Cincinnati-Dayton Rd.
West Chester, OH 45069
[email protected] 513-577-7380
Party name: 396 State Legislators from 41 States
Catherine Wynne Short
Counsel of Record Life Legal Defense Foundation
P.O. Box 2105
Napa, CA 94558
[email protected] (707) 224-6675
Party name: Robin Pierucci, M.D., and Life Legal Defense Foundation
Heather Dorothy Shumaker
Counsel of Record National Women's Law Center
11 Dupont Cir Nw
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
[email protected] 202-588-5180
Party name: National Women's Law Center and 72 Additional Organizations Committed to Gender Equality
Howard Nathan Slugh
Counsel of Record 2400 Virginia Ave NW
Apt C619
Washington, DC 20037
[email protected] 954-328-9461
Party name: Jewish Coalition For Religious Liberty
J. Thomas Smith Jr.
Counsel of Record Constitutional Government Defense Fund
1113 Murfreesboro Road
106-167
Franklin, TN 37064
[email protected] 202-669-1452
Party name: 22 State Policy Organizations
Priscilla J. Smith
Counsel of Record Yale Law School
319 Sterling Place
18th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11238
[email protected] 3472625177
Party name: Yale Law School Information Society Project
William Lucien Smith
Counsel of Record Balch & Bingham LLP
188 East Capitol Street, Suite 1400
Jackson, MS 39201
[email protected] 6019658175
Party name: Commissioner Andy Gipson, et al.
Orin Samuel Snyder
Counsel of Record Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLp
200 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10166
[email protected] (212) 351-4000
Party name: Constitutional Law Scholars Lee C. Bollinger, et al.,
Anjali Srinivasan
Counsel of Record Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP
633 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
[email protected] 415-391-5400
Party name: Economists
Mathew D. Staver
Counsel of Record Liberty Counsel
PO Box 540774
Orlando, FL 32854
[email protected] 407-875-1776
Party name: African American, Hispanic, Roman Catholic and Protestant Religious and Civil Rights Organizations and Leaders
Simon Arthur Steel
Counsel of Record Dentons US LLP
1900 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
[email protected] 2029776249
Party name: European Law Professors
Judd Edward Stone II
Counsel of Record Texas Attorney General's Office
P.O. Box 12548 (MC 059)
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Judd Edward Stone II
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Stephanie Toti
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Kevin Christian Walsh
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Xiao Wang
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19-1392 DOBBS V. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH
DECISION BELOW: 945 F.3d 265
GRANTED LIMITED TO QUESTION 1.
CERT. GRANTED 5/17/2021
QUESTION PRESENTED:
1. Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.
2. Whether the validity of a pre-viability law that protects women's health, the dignity of
unborn children, and the integrity of the medical profession and society should be
analyzed under Casey's "undue burden" standard or Hellerstedt's balancing of benefits
and burdens.
3. Whether abortion providers have third-party standing to invalidate a law that protects
women's health from the dangers of late-term abortions.
LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 18-60868
Judges Comments
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2021 1
Syllabus
NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is
being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued.
The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been
prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader.
See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Syllabus
DOBBS, STATE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ET AL. v.
JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR
THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 19–1392. Argued December 1, 2021—Decided June 24, 2022
Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act provides that “[e]xcept in a medical
emergency or in the case of a severe fetal abnormality, a person shall
not intentionally or knowingly perform . . . or induce an abortion of an
unborn human being if the probable gestational age of the unborn human being has been determined to be greater than fifteen (15) weeks.”
Miss. Code Ann. §41–41–191. Respondents—Jackson Women’s Health
Organization, an abortion clinic, and one of its doctors—challenged the
Act in Federal District Court, alleging that it violated this Court’s precedents establishing a constitutional right to abortion, in particular Roe
v. Wade, 410 U. S. 113, and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa.
v. Casey, 505 U. S. 833. The District Court granted summary judgment in favor of respondents and permanently enjoined enforcement
of the Act, reasoning that Mississippi’s 15-week restriction on abortion
violates this Court’s cases forbidding States to ban abortion pre-viability. The Fifth Circuit affirmed. Before this Court, petitioners defend
the Act on the grounds that Roe and Casey were wrongly decided and
that the Act is constitutional because it satisfies rational-basis review.
Held: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey
are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the
people and their elected representatives. Pp. 8–79.
(a) The critical question is whether the Constitution, properly understood, confers a right to obtain an abortion. Casey’s controlling
opinion skipped over that question and reaffirmed Roe solely on the
basis of stare decisis. A proper application of stare decisis, however,
requires an assessment of the strength of the grounds on which Roe 2 DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION
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was based. The Court therefore turns to the question that the Casey
plurality did not consider. Pp. 8–32.
(1) First, the Court reviews the standard that the Court’s cases
have used to determine whether the Fourteenth Amendment’s reference to “liberty” protects a particular right. The Constitution makes
no express reference to a right to obtain an abortion, but several constitutional provisions have been offered as potential homes for an implicit constitutional right. Roe held that the abortion right is part of a
right to privacy that springs from the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and
Fourteenth Amendments. See 410 U. S., at 152–153. The Casey Court
grounded its decision solely on the theory that the right to obtain an
abortion is part of the “liberty” protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. Others have suggested that support can
be found in the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, but
that theory is squarely foreclosed by the Court’s precedents, which establish that a State’s regulation of abortion is not a sex-based classification and is thus not subject to the heightened scrutiny that applies
to such classifications. See Geduldig v. Aiello, 417 U. S. 484, 496,
n. 20; Bray v. Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic, 506 U. S. 263, 273–
274. Rather, regulations and prohibitions of abortion are governed by
the same standard of review as other health and safety measures.
Pp. 9–11.
(2) Next, the Court examines whether the right to obtain an abortion is rooted in the Nation’s history and tradition and whether it is an
essential component of “ordered liberty.” The Court finds that the
right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and tradition. The underlying theory on which Casey rested—that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause provides substantive, as well
as procedural, protection for “liberty”—has long been controversial.
The Court’s decisions have held that the Due Process Clause protects two categories of substantive rights—those rights guaranteed by
the first eight Amendments to the Constitution and those rights
deemed fundamental that are not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. In deciding whether a right falls into either of these categories,
the question is whether the right is “deeply rooted in [our] history and
tradition” and whether it is essential to this Nation’s “scheme of ordered liberty.” Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U. S. ___, ___ (internal quotation
marks omitted). The term “liberty” alone provides little guidance.
Thus, historical inquiries are essential whenever the Court is asked to
recognize a new component of the “liberty” interest protected by the
Due Process Clause. In interpreting what is meant by “liberty,” the
Court must guard against the natural human tendency to confuse
what the Fourteenth Amendment protects with the Court’s own ardent
views about the liberty that Americans should enjoy. For this reason, the Court has been “reluctant” to recognize rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution. Collins v. Harker Heights, 503 U. S. 115, 125.
Guided by the history and tradition that map the essential components of the Nation’s concept of ordered liberty, the Court finds the
Fourteenth Amendment clearly does not protect the right to an abortion. Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in
American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. No state
constitutional provision had recognized such a right. Until a few years
before Roe, no federal or state court had recognized such a right. Nor
had any scholarly treatise. Indeed, abortion had long been a crime in
every single State. At common law, abortion was criminal in at least
some stages of pregnancy and was regarded as unlawful and could
have very serious consequences at all stages. American law followed
the common law until a wave of statutory restrictions in the 1800s expanded criminal liability for abortions. By the time the Fourteenth
Amendment was adopted, three-quarters of the States had made abortion a crime at any stage of pregnancy. This consensus endured until
the day Roe was decided. Roe either ignored or misstated this history,
and Casey declined to reconsider Roe’s faulty historical analysis.
Respondents’ argument that this history does not matter flies in the
face of the standard the Court has applied in determining whether an
asserted right that is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution is nevertheless protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Solicitor General repeats Roe’s claim that it is “doubtful . . . abortion was ever firmly
established as a common-law crime even with respect to the destruction of a quick fetus,” 410 U. S., at 136, but the great common-law authorities—Bracton, Coke, Hale, and Blackstone—all wrote that a postquickening abortion was a crime. Moreover, many authorities asserted that even a pre-quickening abortion was “unlawful” and that,
as a result, an abortionist was guilty of murder if the woman died from
the attempt. The Solicitor General suggests that history supports an
abortion right because of the common law’s failure to criminalize abortion before quickening, but the insistence on quickening was not universal, see Mills v. Commonwealth, 13 Pa. 631, 633; State v. Slagle, 83
N. C. 630, 632, and regardless, the fact that many States in the late
18th and early 19th century did not criminalize pre-quickening abortions does not mean that anyone thought the States lacked the authority to do so.
Instead of seriously pressing the argument that the abortion right
itself has deep roots, supporters of Roe and Casey contend that the
abortion right is an integral part of a broader entrenched right. Roe
termed this a right to privacy, 410 U. S., at 154, and Casey described
it as the freedom to make “intimate and personal choices” that are
“central to personal dignity and autonomy,” 505 U. S., at 851. Ordered
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