Collins v. Womancare

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1989-06-23

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WALLACE, Circuit Judge: The contentious public debate over the propriety of abortions forms the background of the appeal before us. As an outgrowth of a picketing episode, the district court entered a judgment awarding damages in favor of five plaintiffs in their action for false arrest and for deprivation of constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Womancare, two of its empl…

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