LeRoy Carhart, M.D., et al.
Respondents
Priscilla J. Smith, Counsel of Record On October 31, 2003, Dr. LeRoy Carhart, an OB-GYN from Nebraska, joined three other doctors — William G. Fitzhugh of Virginia, William H. Knorr of New York, and Jill L. Vibkahar of Iowa — in challenging the constitutionality of the Federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Carhart had also been the lead party in a lawsuit that resulted in the Supreme Court striking down Nebraska’s late-term abortion ban. On September 8, 2004, the Federal district court sided with the doctors and ruled that the ban was unconstitutional because it provided no exception to preserve a…
