EUBANKS v. DAVID STENGEL

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Docket Number

No. 98-6671.

Attorney(S)

ARGUED: D. Brent Irvin, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, CIVIL DIVISION, Frankfort, Kentucky, for Appellant. A. Stephen Hut, Jr., WILMER, CUTLER PICKERING, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: D. Brent Irvin, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, CIVIL DIVISION, Frankfort, Kentucky, for Appellant. A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Kimberly A. Parker, Matthew P. Previn, WILMER, CUTLER PICKERING, Washington, D.C., Carrie Y. Flaxman, DECHERT, PRICE RHOADS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Eve C. Gartner, PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA, INC., New York, New York, David A. Friedman, FERNANDEZ, FRIEDMAN, GROSSMAN KOHN, Louisville, Kentucky, Catherine Weiss, Jennifer Dalven, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, New York, New York, for Appellees. Ann K. Benfield, Louisville, Kentucky, Adam L. Frank, SCHULTE ROTH ZABEL, New York, New York, Paul Benjamin Linton, Northbrook, Illinois, Theodore H. Amshoof, Jr., AMSHOFF AMSHOFF, Louisville, Kentucky, for Amici Curiae.

Judges

Ralph B. Guy
Eric L. Clay
Sandra Shank Beckwith

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SAMUEL G. EUBANKS, M.D., ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES, v. R. DAVID STENGEL, COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY, ET AL., DEFENDANTS, A. B. CHANDLER, III, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AND HIS SUCCESSORS IN OFFICE, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

PER CURIAM.

After reviewing the briefs and the record and having heard oral argument, we held this case in abeyance pending the decision by the United States Supreme Court in Stenberg v. Carhart, ___ U.S. ___ 120 S.Ct. 2597, 147 L.E.2d 743 (2000). The appeal in Carhart involved a challenge to Nebraska's partial birth abortion statute and presented issues very similar to those involved in this challenge to the Kentucky partial birth abortion statute.

After carefully reviewing the decision in Carhart we conclude that it is controlling in this case, and that the district court was correct when it held that the Kentucky statute is unconstitutional.

AFFIRMED.

SAMUEL G. EUBANKS, M.D., ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES, v. R. DAVID STENGEL, COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY, ET AL., DEFENDANTS, A. B. CHANDLER, III, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AND HIS SUCCESSORS IN OFFICE, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

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