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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Oct. 11, 2023

Full 9th Circuit reverses panel, blocks Idaho abortion law

Tuesday’s two-sentence order by 9th Circuit Chief Judge Mary H. Murguia stated that a majority of active judges voted to reconsider the case en banc while vacating last month’s panel ruling by Judge Lawrence VanDyke,

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday vacated a three-judge panel decision that a 1986 federal law does not preempt Idaho’s ban on abortion and agreed to reconsider the case en banc.

The decision is a victory for the Biden administration, which argued the Idaho law criminalizing abortion, which took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, ran afoul of the Emergency Medical Treatment Treatment and L...

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