Intact dilation and extraction is a surgical procedure that removes an intact fetus from the uterus. The procedure is used both after miscarriages and for abortions in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.
The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 is a United States law prohibiting a form of late termination of pregnancy called "partial-birth abortion",referred to in medical literature as intact dilation and extraction. Under this law,any physician "who,in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce,knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years,or both". The law was enacted in 2003,and in 2007 its constitutionality was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is a United States federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States district courts:
Stenberg v. Carhart,530 U.S. 914 (2000),was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court dealing with a Nebraska law which made performing "partial-birth abortion" illegal,without regard for the health of the mother. Nebraska physicians who performed the procedure contrary to the law were subject to having their medical licenses revoked. The Court struck down the law,finding the Nebraska statute criminalizing "partial birth abortion[s]" violated the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution,as interpreted in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Roe v. Wade.
John Melvin Gerrard is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
Gonzales v. Carhart,550 U.S. 124 (2007),was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The case reached the high court after U.S. Attorney General,Alberto Gonzales,appealed a ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in favor of LeRoy Carhart that struck down the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Also before the Supreme Court was the consolidated appeal of Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,which had struck down the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
Reena Andrea Raggi is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and maintains her chambers in Brooklyn,New York. She was formerly a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Chester John Straub is an inactive senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit headquartered in New York City.
The University of Nebraska College of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of University of Nebraska system. It was founded in 1888 and became part of University of Nebraska in 1891. According to Nebraska's official 2017 ABA-required disclosures,70.3% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time,long-term,JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
Howard Frederic Sachs is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. He also is a former federal judicial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
A visiting judge is a judge appointed to hear a case as a member of a court to which he or she does not ordinarily belong. In United States federal courts,this is referred to as an assignment "by designation" of the Chief Justice of the United States or the Circuit Chief Judge,and is authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 292 or 28 U.S.C. § 294.
Clarence Arlen Beam is an inactive Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
Richard Conway Casey was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Casey gained national prominence for his unusual personal circumstances —during his years on the bench,he was completely blind —and for his aggressive questioning during a 2004 trial considering the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. He died on March 22,2007.
Robert Vernon Denney was a Nebraska Republican politician,a United States representative and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
Warren Keith Urbom was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
Shon Robert Hopwood is an American appellate lawyer and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Hopwood became well-known as a jailhouse lawyer who served time in prison for bank robbery. While in prison,he started spending time in the law library,and became an accomplished United States Supreme Court practitioner by the time he left in 2009.
Jane Louise Kelly is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
John Kenneth Bush is an American attorney and United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Bush graduated from Harvard Law School and practiced in Washington,D.C. and Louisville,Kentucky,where he served as president of the local branch of the Federalist Society. In 2017,he was nominated to a seat on the Sixth Circuit by President Donald Trump. During his confirmation hearings,it was revealed that Bush had authored pseudonymous blog posts in which he disparaged gay rights,compared abortion to slavery,and cited alt-right websites promoting birtherism and other false right-wing conspiracy theories. He was confirmed in the Senate by the Republican majority on a 51–47 vote in July 2017.
Leonard Steven Grasz is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Barry Weldon Ashe is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
