West Alabama Women's Center et al v. Miller

Filing 122

SECOND AMENDED PRELIMINARY-INJUNCTION ORDER: it is ORDERED that the 120 Amended Preliminary Injunction previously entered is further amended as follows: (1) The 53 motion for a preliminary injunction, filed by the plfs, West Alabama Women's Center, Willie J. Parker, M.D., Alabama Women's Center, and Yashica Robinson White, M.D., is granted; (2) The dfts, the Alabama State Health Officer, the Alabama Attorney General, and the district attorneys for Tuscaloosa and Madison Counties, a nd 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., against plfs West Alabama Women's Center, Willie J. Parker, M.D ., Alabama Women's Center, and Yashica Robinson White, M.D. until further order of the court; This injunction does not extend to the private civil-enforcement provisions of the fetal-demise law; (3) Dft, 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, against plfs West Alabama Women's Center and Alabama Women's Center until further order of the court; (4) The bond requirement of FRCP 65(c) is waived. Signed by Honorable Judge Myron H. Thompson on 11/22/2016. (wcl, )

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, NORTHERN DIVISION WEST ALABAMA WOMEN’S CENTER, et al., on behalf of themselves and their patients, ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) ) v. ) ) DR. THOMAS M. MILLER, in ) his official capacity as ) State Health Officer, ) et al., ) ) Defendants. ) CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:15cv497-MHT (WO) SECOND AMENDED PRELIMINARY-INJUNCTION ORDER Having had an ambiguity concerning the scope of the preliminary attention, injunction enforcement injunction the court should brought concludes have been to that the the limited of the fetal-demise school-proximity law against to law certain court’s preliminary enjoining and the plaintiffs. Accordingly, it is ORDERED that the amended preliminary injunction previously entered (doc. no. 120) is further 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 RESTRAINED Alabama’s § 26-23G-1 each from preliminarily enforcing fetal-demise et seq., law, against ENJOINED and the State of 1975 Ala. Code plaintiffs West Alabama Women’s Center, Willie J. Parker, M.D., Alabama Women’s Center, and Yashica Robinson White, M.D. until further order of the court. This injunction does 2   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 school-proximity § 22-21-35, State law, against of 1975 plaintiffs Alabama’s Ala. West Code Alabama Women’s Center and Alabama Women’s Center until further order of the court. (4) The bond requirement of Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(c) is waived. DONE, this the 22nd day of November, 2016. /s/ Myron H. Thompson UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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