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Case 4:14-cv-01910-DCB Document 14 Filed 03/07/14 Page 1 of 27 1 Alice Clapman* David Brown* Helene T. Krasnoff* Julie Rikelman* 2 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS 3 AMERICA 120 Wall Street 1110 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 300 New York, NY 10005 4 Washington, DC 20005 (917) 637-6000 (202) 973-4800 [email protected] 5 [email protected] [email protected] 6 [email protected] Attorneys for William Richardson, MD; Attorneys for Planned Parenthood Arizona, and William H Richardson MD, PC, doing 7 Inc. business as Tucson Women’s Center 8 Lawrence Rosenfeld SQUIRE SANDERS (US) LLP * Applications for admission pro 9 AZ Bar No. 004426 hac vice forthcoming/pending 10 1 East Washington Street, Suite 2700 Phoenix, Arizona 85004 11 (602) 528-4000 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 12 13 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 15 16 Planned Parenthood Arizona, Inc.; William Case No. 4:14-CV-01910-TUC-FRZ Richardson, M.D.; and William H. 17 Richardson M.D., P.C., doing business as PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR Tucson Women’s Center, TEMPORARY RESTRAINING 18 ORDER AND/OR PRELIMINARY Plaintiffs, INJUNCTION AND 19 MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT v. 1 20 THEREOF 21 Will Humble, Director of the Arizona (Oral Argument Requested) Department of Health Services, in his 22 official capacity, 23 Defendant. 24 25 1 For reasons discussed herein, Plaintiffs request that the Court set a hearing on their 26 application for preliminary injunction prior to April 1, 2014. If a full hearing on the 27 preliminary injunction cannot be set prior to that date, Plaintiffs request that the Court issue an order to show cause why a temporary restraining order should not issue, with a 28 preliminary injunction hearing to be scheduled as soon thereafter as is convenient for the Court. Case 4:14-cv-01910-DCB Document 14 Filed 03/07/14 Page 2 of 27 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 2 Page 3 PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND 4 PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION.............................................................................. 1 STATEMENT OF FACTS.................................................................................................. 2 5 A. Medication Abortion Background...................................................... 2 6 B. The Challenged Law and Its Impact on Plaintiffs and Their Patients ............................................................................................... 5 7 ARGUMENT....................................................................................................................... 7 8 I. PLAINTIFFS ARE ENTITLED TO A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND, IF NECESSARY, A TEMPORARY 9 RESTRAINING ORDER.............................................................................. 7 10 II. PLAINTIFFS ARE LIKELY TO SUCCEED ON THE MERITS ............... 8 A. The Arizona Law Violates a Woman’s Right to Choose 11 Abortion ............................................................................................. 8 1. Neither a medication abortion ban nor an FPL mandate 12 serves women’s health. ........................................................... 8 13 2. Regardless of its reach, the Arizona law would also impose a substantial obstacle. ............................................... 11 14 B. The Act Violates Patients’ Right to Bodily Integrity....................... 13 15 C. The Arizona Law is Unconstitutionally Vague................................ 15 16 D. The Act Violates the Equal Protection Clause................................. 16 III. PLAINTIFFS FACE IRREPARABLE HARM FOR WHICH 17 THERE IS NO ADEQUATE REMEDY AT LAW ................................... 18 IV. THE BALANCE OF HARMS STRONGLY FAVORS PLAINTIFFS 18 AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST IS SERVED BY AN INJUNCTION..... 18 19 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -i- Case 4:14-cv-01910-DCB Document 14 Filed 03/07/14 Page 3 of 27 1 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES 2 Page(s) 3 Cases 4 Akron v. Akron Ctr. for Reprod. Health, 5 462 U.S. 416 (1983).............................................................................................. 8, 9, 11 6 Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Cottrell, 7 632 F.3d 1127 (9th Cir. 2011) ...................................................................................... 18 8 Buckman Co. v. Plaintiffs’ Legal Comm., 531 U.S. 341 (2001)...................................................................................................... 16 9 City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Ctr., 10 473 U.S. 432 (1985)................................................................................................ 16, 18 11 Cline v. Okla. Coal. for Reprod. Justice, 12 313 P.3d 253 (Okla. 2013)...................................................................................... 10, 12 13 Colautti v. Franklin, 14 439 U.S. 379 (1979)...................................................................................................... 15 15 Connecticut v. Menillo, 423 U.S. 9 (1975)............................................................................................................ 9 16 Cruzan v. Dir., Mo. Dep’t of Health, 17 497 U.S. 261 (1990)................................................................................................ 13, 14 18 Del Rio v. Morgado, 19 CV 10-8955-FMO JPR, 2013 WL 1935295 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 2, 2013)......................... 13 20 Forbes v. Napolitano, 21 236 F.3d 1009 (9th Cir. 2000) ................................................................................ 15, 16 22 Galassini v. Town of Fountain Hills, Ariz., CV-11-02097-PHX-JAT, 2011 WL 5244960 (D. Ariz. Nov. 3, 2011)........................ 19 23 Gonzales v. Carhart, 24 550 U.S. 124 (2007)................................................................................................ 11, 12 25 Grayned v. City of Rockford, 26 408 U.S. 104 (1972)...................................................................................................... 15 27 Isaacson v. Horne, 28 716 F.3d 1213 (9th Cir. 2013), cert. denied, 134 S. Ct. 905 (2014)................... 1, 13, 17 i Case 4:14-cv-01910-DCB Document 14 Filed 03/07/14 Page 4 of 27 1 Johnson v. Couturier, 572 F. 3d 1067 (9th Cir. 2009) ..................................................................................... 19 2 3 Johnson v. Meltzer, 134 F.3d 1393 (9th Cir. 1998) ...................................................................................... 13 4 Mazurek v. Armstrong, 5 520 U.S. 968 (1997)........................................................................................................ 9 6 McCormack v. Hiedeman, 7 694 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2012) .................................................................................. 8, 11 8 Melendres v. Arpaio, 695 F.3d 990 (9th Cir. 2012) .............................................................................. 7, 18, 19 9 10 MKB Management Corp. v. Burdick, 2012 ND........................................................................................................................ 10 11 Olmos v. Ryan, No. CV 11-914-PHX-GMS (MEA), 12 2012 WL 177859 (D. Ariz. Jan. 23, 2012)........................................................................... 8 13 Pimentel v. Dreyfus, 14 670 F.3d 1096 (9th Cir. 2012) ........................................................................................ 7 15 Planned Parenthood Ariz., Inc. v. Betlach, 899 F. Supp. 2d 868 (D. Ariz. 2012) ............................................................................ 19 16 17 Planned Parenthood of Cent. Mo. v. Danforth, 428 U.S. 52 (1976).................................................................................................... 8, 11 18 Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region v. Dreyzehner, 19 853 F. Supp. 2d 724 (M.D. Tenn. 2012)....................................................................... 18 20 Planned Parenthood of Greater Tex. Surgical Health Servs. v. Abbott, 21 951 F. Supp. 2d 891 (W.D. Tex. 2013)............................................................. 10, 12, 13 22 Planned Parenthood of Idaho v. Wasden, 376 F. Supp. 2d 1012 (D. Idaho 2005) ......................................................................... 18 23 24 Planned Parenthood of S. Ariz. v. Lawall, 180 F.3d 1022 (9th Cir. 1999) ...................................................................................... 15 25 Planned Parenthood of Se. Pa. v. Casey, 26 505 U.S. 833 (1992)............................................................................................... passim 27 Planned Parenthood Sw. Ohio Region v. DeWine, 28 696 F.3d 490 (6th Cir. 2012) ...................................................................... 10, 12, 13, 15 ii Case 4:14-cv-01910-DCB Document 14 Filed 03/07/14 Page 5 of 27 1 Planned Parenthood of Wis. v. Van Hollen, 738 F.3d 786 (7th Cir. 2013) .................................................................................. 11, 17 2 3 Riggins v. Nevada, 504 U.S. 127 (1992)................................................................................................ 13, 14 4 Rochin v. Calif., 5 342 U.S. 165 (1952)................................................................................................ 13, 14 6 Roe v. Wade, 7 410 U.S. 113 (1973)........................................................................................................ 9 8 Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996).....................................................................................................