State of California, by and through Attorney General Xavier Becerra v. Alex M. Azar Ii

FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
S TATE OF C ALIFORNIA, by
and through Attorney General
Xavier Becerra,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
A LEX M. AZAR II, in his
Official Capacity as Secretary
of the U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services;
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH & HUMAN S ERVICES ,
Defendants-Appellants.
No. 19-15974
D.C. No.
3:19-cv-01184-EMC

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ESSENTIAL ACCESS HEALTH,
INC .; M ELISSA M ARSHALL,
M.D.,
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
A LEX M. AZAR II, Secretary
of U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services; UNITED
S TATES DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH AND HUMAN
S ERVICES ,
Defendants-Appellants.
No. 19-15979
D.C. No.
3:19-cv-01195-EMC
S TATE OF OREGON; S TATE OF
NEW Y ORK; S TATE OF
C OLORADO ; S TATE OF
C ONNECTICUT; S TATE OF
DELAWARE; D ISTRICT OF
C OLUMBIA; S TATE OF
HAWAII; S TATE OF ILLINOIS ;
S TATE OF M ARYLAND;
C OMMONWEALTH OF
M ASSACHUSETTS ; S TATE OF
M ICHIGAN ; S TATE OF
M INNESOTA; S TATE OF
NEVADA ; S TATE OF NEW
J ERSEY; S TATE OF NEW
M EXICO; S TATE OF NORTH
C AROLINA ; C OMMONWEALTH
OF P ENNSYLVANIA ; S TATE OF
R HODE ISLAND; S TATE OF
No. 19-35386
D.C. Nos.
6:19-cv-00317-MC
6:19-cv-00318-MC

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S TATE OF C ALIFORNIA V. AZAR 3
VERMONT; C OMMONWEALTH
OF V IRGINIA; S TATE OF
W ISCONSIN; AMERICAN
M EDICAL ASSOCIATION ;
OREGON M EDICAL
ASSOCIATION; P LANNED
P ARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF
AMERICA, INC .; P LANNED
P ARENTHOOD OF
S OUTHWESTERN OREGON ;
P LANNED P ARENTHOOD
C OLUMBIA W ILLAMETTE;
THOMAS N. E WING, M.D.;
M ICHELE P. M EGREGIAN,
C.N.M.,
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
A LEX M. AZAR II; U NITED
S TATES DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH AND HUMAN
S ERVICES ; D IANE FOLEY;
O FFICE OF P OPULATION
A FFAIRS ,
Defendants-Appellants.

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S TATE OF W ASHINGTON ;
NATIONAL F AMILY P LANNING
AND R EPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
ASSOCIATION; FEMINIST
W OMEN’S HEALTH C ENTER ;
DEBORAH OYER , M.D.;
TERESA GALL,
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
A LEX M. AZAR II, in his
official capacity as Secretary
of the United States
Department of Health and
Human Services; UNITED
S TATES DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH AND HUMAN
S ERVICES ; D IANE FOLEY,
MD, in her official capacity
as Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Population
Affairs; O FFICE OF
P OPULATION A FFAIRS ,
Defendants-Appellants.
No. 19-35394
D.C. Nos.
1:19-cv-03040-SAB
1:19-cv-03045-SAB
ORDER
Filed July 11, 2019

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S TATE OF C ALIFORNIA V. AZAR 5
Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Edward
Leavy, Kim McLane Wardlaw, William A. Fletcher,
Richard A. Paez, Jay S. Bybee, Consuelo M. Callahan,
Milan D. Smith, Jr., Sandra S. Ikuta, Eric David Miller, and
Kenneth K. Lee, Circuit Judges.
Order
SUMMARY*
Title X of the Public Health Service Act
The en banc court denied the motions for administrative
stay of the three-judge panel Order on Motions for Stay
Pending Appeal. The en banc court will expeditiously rehear
and reconsider the merits of Appellants’ motions for stay of
the district court’s preliminary injunction orders pending
consideration of the appeals on the merits.
Chief Judge Thomas and Judges Wardlaw, W. Fletcher,
and Paez would grant the motions for administrative stay,
and dissented from this order.
* This summary constitutes no part of the opinion of the court. It
has been prepared by court staff for the convenience of the reader.

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COUNSEL
Jaynie Lilley, Katherine Allen, and Michael S. Raab,
Appellate Staff; Brinton Lucas, Senior Counsel; Hashim M.
Mooppan, Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Joseph H.
Hunt, Assistant Attorney General; for Defendants-
Appellants.
Anna Rich, Ketakee Kane, and Brenda Ayon Verduzco,
Deputy Attorneys General; Kristin A. Liska, Associate
Deputy Solicitor General; Joshua Patashnik, Deputy
Solicitor General; Kathleen Boergers, Supervising Deputy
Attorney General; Michael L. Newman, Senior Assistant
Attorney General; Edward C. DuMont, Solicitor General;
Xavier Becerra, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney
General, San Francisco, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee
State of California.
Alan E. Schoenfeld, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
LLP, New York, New York; Joshua M. Koppel, Albinas J.
Prizgintas, Kimberly A. Parker, and Paul R.Q. Wolfson,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington,
D.C.; Kennon Scott, Per A. Ramfjord, and Jeremy D. Sacks,
Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, Oregon; Erin G. Sutton, Leonard
A. Nelson, and Brian D. Vandenberg, Office of General
Counsel, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois;
Mark Bonnano, General Counsel, Oregon Medical
Association, Portland, Oregon; Carrie Y. Flaxman and
Helene T. Krasnoff, Planned Parenthood Federation of
America Inc., Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiffs-Appellees
American Medical Association; Oregon Medical
Association; Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
Inc.; Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon; Planned
Parenthood Columbia Willamette; Thomas N. Ewing, M.D.;
Michele P. Megregian, C.N.M.

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Judith N. Vale, Senior Assistant Solicitor General; Anisha S.
Dasgupta, Deputy Solicitor General; Barbara D.
Underwood, Solicitor General; Letitia James, Attorney
General; Office of the Attorney General, Albany, New York;
Benjamin Gutman, Solicitor General; Jona J. Maukonen,
Senior Assistant Attorney General; Ellen F. Rosenblum,
Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Salem,
Oregon; Phil Weiser, Attorney General, State of Colorado;
William Tong, Attorney General, State of Connecticut;
Kathy Jennings, Attorney General, State of Delaware; Karl
A. Racine, Attorney General, District of Columbia; Clare E.
Connors, Attorney General, State of Hawaii; Kwame Raoul,
Attorney General, State of Illinois; Brian E. Frosh, Attorney
General, State of Maryland; Maura Healey, Attorney
General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Dana Nessel,
Attorney General, State of Michigan; Keith Ellison,
Attorney General, State of Minnesota; Aaron Ford, Attorney
General, State of Nevada; Gurbir Singh Grewal, Attorney
General, State of New Jersey; Hector Balderas, Attorney
General, State of New Mexico; Josh Stein, Attorney
General, State of North Carolina; Josh Shapiro, Attorney
General, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Peter F. Neronha,
Attorney General, State of Rhode Island; T.J. Donovan,
Attorney General, State of Vermont; Mark R. Herring,
Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia; Josh Kaul,
Attorney General, State of Wisconsin; for Plaintiffs-
Appellees State of Oregon, State of New York, State of
Colorado, State of Connecticut, State of Delaware, District
of Columbia, State of Hawaii, State of Illinois, State of
Maryland, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of
Michigan, State of Minnesota, State of Nevada, State of New
Jersey, State of New Mexico, State of North Carolina,
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State of Rhode Island,
State of Vermont, Commonwealth of Virginia, and State of
Wisconsin.

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Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, Andrew J. Sutton, and
Thomas N. Bulleit, Ropes & Gray LLP, Washington, D.C.;
Haley Eagon, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, Massachusetts;
Taylor Washburn, Lane Powell PC, Seattle, Washington;
Amy W. Malone, Ropes & Gray LLP, New York, New
York; Daniel W. Richards, Ropes & Gray LLP, East Palo
Alto, California; Nadia Dahab, Stoll Berne, Portland,
Oregon; for Amici Curiae American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of
Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians,
California Medical Association, Society for Adolescent
Health and Medicine, and Society for Maternal-Fetal
Medicine.
Fiona Kaye, Brigitte Amiri, Elizabeth Deutsch, Anjali Dalal,
and Ruth E. Harlow, American Civil Liberties Union
Foundation; Emily Chiang, American Civil Liberties Union
Foundation of Washington; Joe Shaeffer, MacDonald
Hoague & Bayless, Seattle, Washington; for Plaintiffs-
Appellees National Family Planning and Reproductive
Health Association, Feminist Women’s Health Center.
Deborah Oyer M.D., and Teresa Gall.

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ORDER
Pending before the en banc court are several emergency
motions for an administrative stay of the three-judge panel
order staying the district courts’ preliminary injunction
orders. See Oregon, et. al. v. Azar, No. 19-35386 (Dkt. nos.
59 and 66); Washington, et. al. v. Azar, No. 19-35394 (Dkt.
nos. 35, 37, and 40).
Pursuant to prior order of the Court upon granting
reconsideration en banc, the three-judge panel Order on
Motions for Stay Pending Appeal in these cases was ordered
not be cited as precedent by or to any court of the Ninth
Circuit. However, the order granting reconsideration en
banc did not vacate the stay order itself, so it remains in
effect. Thus, the motions for administrative stay remain
pending and were not mooted by the grant of reconsideration
en banc.
After due consideration of the emergency motions, the
motions for administrative stay of the three-judge panel
order are DENIED. The en banc court will proceed
expeditiously to rehear and reconsider the merits of the
Appellants’ motions for stay of the district courts’
preliminary injunction orders pending consideration of the
appeals on the merits. Until further order of the Court, no
further briefing is required of the parties for the en banc
court’s reconsideration of the three-judge panel order. The
briefing schedule established for the merits appeal shall
remain as originally ordered.
Chief Judge Thomas and Judges Wardlaw, W. Fletcher,
and Paez would grant the motions for administrative stay and
therefore respectfully dissent from this order.

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