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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

AUSTIN DIVISION

PLANNED PARENTHOOD §

CENTER FOR CHOICE, et al., §

§

 Plaintiffs, §

v. § CAUSE NO. 1:20-CV-00323-LY

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GREG ABBOTT, et al., §

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 Defendants. §

STATE DEFENDANTS’1 NOTICE OF APPEAL

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that State Defendants hereby appeal to the United 

States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit the Orders entered on April 9, 2020 and 

April 14, 2020, ECF Nos. 63 and 82.

 

1 Defendants Greg Abbott, in his official capacity as Governor of Texas; Ken Paxton, 

in his official capacity as Attorney General of Texas; Phil Wilson, in his official 

capacity as Acting Executive Commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services 

Commission; Stephen Brint Carlton, in his official capacity as Executive Director of 

the Texas Medical Board; and Katherine A. Thomas, in her official capacity as the 

Executive Director of the Texas Board of Nursing (collectively “State Defendants”). 

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Respectfully submitted.

KEN PAXTON

Attorney General of Texas

JEFFREY C. MATEER

First Assistant Attorney General

RYAN L. BANGERT

Deputy First Assistant Attorney General

DARREN MCCARTY

Deputy Attorney General for Civil Litigation

THOMAS A. ALBRIGHT

Chief, General Litigation Division

/s/ Andrew B. Stephens 

ANDREW B. STEPHENS

Texas Bar No. 24079396

BENJAMIN S. WALTON

Texas Bar No. 24075241

Assistant Attorneys General

General Litigation Division

HEATHER GEBELIN HACKER

Assistant Solicitor General

Texas Bar No. 24103325

Office of the Attorney General

300 West 15th Street 

P.O. Box 12548

Austin, Texas 78711-2548

(512) 463-2120 (phone)

(512) 320-0667 (fax)

Attorneys for State Defendants 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

 

I certify that on April 15, 2020, this document was served through the Court’s 

CM/ECF Document Filing System or through electronic mail, upon the following 

counsel of record: 

Patrick J. O’Connell

Law Offices of Patrick J. O’Connell PLLC

5926 Balcones Dr., Ste. 220

Austin, TX 78731

(512) 852-5918

pat@pjofca.com

Molly Duane 

Rabia Muqaddam

Francesca Cocuzza

Center for Reproductive Rights

199 Water St. 22nd Floor

New York, NY 10038

(917) 637-3631

mduane@reprorights.org

rmuqaddam@reprorights.org

fcocuzza@reprorights.org

Julie Murray

Alice Clapman

Richard Muniz

Hannah Swanson

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

1110 Vermont Ave., NW Ste. 300

Washington, D.C. 20005

(202) 973-4800

julie.murray@ppfa.org

alice.clapman@ppfa.org

richard.muniz@ppfa.org

hanna.swanson@ppfa.org

Stephanie Toti

Rupali Sharma

Sneha Shah

Lawyering Project

25 Broadway, Fl. 9

New York, NY 10004

(646) 490-1083

stoti@lawyeringproject.org

rsharma@lawyeringproject.org

sshah@lawyeringproject.org

Jennifer Sandman

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

123 William Street

New York, NY 10038

(212) 541-7800

jennifer.sandman@ppfa.org

Justin C. Pfeiffer

Assistant Fort Bend County Attorney

301 Jackson Street (Mail)

401 Jackson Street, Third Floor (Office)

Richmond, Texas 77469

(281) 341-4555

Justin.Pfeiffer@fortbendcountytx.gov

Brigitte Adrienne Amiri

American Civil Liberties Union

125 Broad Street

New York, NY 10004

(212) 549-2633

bamiri@aclu.org

John Butrus

Assistant Dallas County District 

Attorney 

133 N. Riverfront Blvd., L.B. 19

Dallas, TX 75207

(214) 653-3691

John.buterus@dallascounty.org

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Elizabeth Murrill

Solicitor General

Joseph Scott S. John

Louisiana Department of Justice

1885 N. Third Street

Baton Rouge, LA 70804

(225) 456-7544 / (225) 485-2458

emurrill@ag.louisiana.gov

stjohnj@ag.louisiana.gov

Anjali Salvador

Andre Segura

ACLU Foundation of Texas, Inc.

P.O. Box 8306

Houston, TX 77288

(713)942-8146

asalvador@aclutx.org

asegura@clutx.org

/s/ Andrew B. Stephens

ANDREW B. STEPHENS

Assistant Attorney General

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