Th U.S. Supreme Court today issued an order preserving the
status quo in Louisiana while the Court considers
Whole Woman's Health, the abortion case from Texas that was argued this week. (See
prior posting.) The 5th Circuit had stayed a district court's preliminary injunction against enforcement of a Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The 5th Circuit's stay had the effect of allowing Louisiana's contested law to go into effect. Today in
June Medical Services LLC v. Gee the U.S. Supreme Court issued the
following order:
Consistent with the Court’s action granting a stay in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, No. 14A1288 (June 29, 2015), the application to vacate the stay entered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on February 24, 2016, presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court, is granted and the Fifth Circuit’s stay of the district court’s injunction is vacated.
Justice Thomas would deny the application.
This order was in response to June Medical's Emergency Application to Vacate Stay of Preliminary Injunction Pending Appeal (
full text).
