Post by Logan on Mar 31, 2016 0:08:14 GMT -6
NC must dip into savings to pay $1 million for losing abortion ultrasound case
North Carolina will have to dip into its emergency fund to pay $1 million in attorneys’ fees for losing a federal lawsuit that overturned the 2011 requirement that women seeking abortions be shown narrated ultrasound images before the procedure.
The state Justice Department is asking the Council of State to approve paying the bill with money from the contingency and emergency fund when it meets Tuesday.
After the newly Republican-dominated General Assembly took over in 2011, it passed the Woman’s Right to Know Act requiring patients be shown narrated ultrasound images at least four hours before receiving abortions. A group of abortion providers sued in federal court and the attorney general defended against the lawsuit.
U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles in 2014 found that provision in the law unconstitutional. The attorney general appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which upheld Eagles’ ruling. The attorney general appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which last year declined to hear the appeal.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article68999852.html
North Carolina will have to dip into its emergency fund to pay $1 million in attorneys’ fees for losing a federal lawsuit that overturned the 2011 requirement that women seeking abortions be shown narrated ultrasound images before the procedure.
The state Justice Department is asking the Council of State to approve paying the bill with money from the contingency and emergency fund when it meets Tuesday.
After the newly Republican-dominated General Assembly took over in 2011, it passed the Woman’s Right to Know Act requiring patients be shown narrated ultrasound images at least four hours before receiving abortions. A group of abortion providers sued in federal court and the attorney general defended against the lawsuit.
U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles in 2014 found that provision in the law unconstitutional. The attorney general appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which upheld Eagles’ ruling. The attorney general appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which last year declined to hear the appeal.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article68999852.html