Category: Judicial

By Dave Andrusko NRL News Today readers are very familiar with the 2019 decision by the Kansas Supreme Court in which the justices found a “fundamental right to  abortion” in Section 1 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights.  Earlier this year, a lower court judge used that decision to obliterate a ban on the dismemberment …

By Dave Andrusko On Wednesday, an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel agreed with U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Russ Walker’s 2017  decision to strike down portions of Alabama’s amended 2014 parental consent act. Like all parental involvement laws, Alabama’s parental law has a judicial bypass. If the minor does not want to attempt to gain …

By Dave Andrusko That didn’t take long—but then again U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon didn’t have long to come to his decision. On June 22,  when he heard the challenge to House Bill 1577, Judge Hanlon only had  eight days to decide whether to block a law that was overwhelmingly approved by the Indiana …

By Dave Andrusko On Monday, as surely as day follows night, District Court Judge Mitchell Turner held that Iowa’s 2020 law requiring a 24 hour waiting period was unconstitutional. Judge Turner did so on two grounds but by far the most important was the Iowa Supreme Court’s 2018 decision which not only found a 72 …

By Dave Andrusko The content of District Court Judge Mitchell Turner’s order, filed Monday, was 100% predictable:  Turner held that Iowa’s 2020 law requiring a 24 hour waiting period was unconstitutional. Why the certainty about a law that passed the House 53-42  and the Senate by nearly two to one margin [31-16]? The 2018 decision …

Law not based on NRLC model By Dave Andrusko A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, today unanimously upheld a 2019 lower-court decision striking down a North Carolina abortion law first passed in 1973 after the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down. On March 25, 2019, U.S. District …

By Dave Andrusko On Monday, we posted a detailed statement from the office of pro-life Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron alerting us that Cameron’s office had filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court which argues “that as the ‘chief law officer’ for the Commonwealth, the Attorney General must be allowed to intervene in …

High court will hear case this fall FRANKFORT, Ky. (June 14, 2021) – Attorney General Daniel Cameron today filed a brief before the United States Supreme Court in support of his defense of House Bill 454, Kentucky’s law prohibiting live-dismemberment abortions. In March, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Attorney General Cameron’s appeal in …

By Dave Andrusko  One of the many pro-life laws passed by the state of Tennessee is a 48 hour period of reflection between the time a woman goes to the abortion clinic and (assuming she decides to go ahead) returns.  Passed in 2015,  Tennessee Code 39-15-202 was in effect until October 2020 when Middle Tennessee …