IN Petitions SCOTUS On Parental Notice Abortion Law
July 15, 2022

Indiana asks Supreme Court to speed process so state can put its strict abortion law into effect

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter

Updated 11:40 PM ET, Thu July 14, 2022

(CNN) -- Indiana asked the Supreme Court Thursday to move quickly to officially transmit its opinion overturning Roe v. Wade to a federal appeals court so that the state can attempt to put its strict parental notification law into effect.

The Indiana law was enjoined by a district court in 2017 as a violation of Supreme Court precedent. But last month, after the Supreme Court invalidated Roe v. Wade in a case called Dobbs v. Jackson, the justices instructed the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit to take another look at the Indiana law pursuant to Dobbs. ... Under Supreme Court rules, the justices would set that process in motion by transmitting their mandate by July 25. In an emergency application filed with the court Thursday, however, the state asked the court to speed up the process.

The request comes as more than half the states are expected to bar or severely restrict abortion. Thirteen states have laws in place that are designed to be "triggered" and take effect if Roe no longer applies. In some states those laws have gone into effect, but others such as Texas, Idaho and Tennessee will wait for the Supreme Court mandate to come down. Those states have not yet asked the justices to expedite its judgment.

"Immediate transmittal of this Court's judgment is necessary to avoid inflicting further irreparable harm to the State of Indiana," the state's Solicitor General Thomas M. Fisher argued.

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