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JUNE MEDICAL SERVICES L. L. C. v. RUSSO 

ALITO, J., dissenting 

privileges  at  Touro  Hospital,  where  Doe  5,  who  also  per-
forms abortions at Women’s Clinic, has privileges.

The  plurality  provides  an  explanation  that  is  found  no-
where in the record, i.e., that Doe 6 could not get privileges 
at Touro because, unlike Doe 5, who performs both surgical
and medication abortions, Doe 6 performs only medication
abortions.  Ante, at 30.  Not only is this pure speculation, 
but it is not evident why this difference might matter.  The 
plurality  notes  that  Doe  6’s  medication  abortion  patients
have  never  been  admitted  to  a  hospital,  but  the  plurality 
also argues that very few surgical abortion patients are ad-
mitted.  Ante, at 30, 37.  If Doe 6 had testified or been de-
posed, he could have been asked about his decision not to
apply at Touro, but that did not occur. 

Aside from Touro, there are eight other hospitals in the
New Orleans area, but Doe 6 apparently made no attempt 
to  get  privileges  at  six  of  these,  and  nothing  in  the  scant 
record explains why.  He stated that he formally applied at 
East  Jefferson  Hospital  and  made  an  informal  inquiry  at
Tulane Hospital, but much about these efforts is unknown. 
No  representative  from  Tulane  or  East  Jefferson  testified  
or was deposed, and no documents relating to either appli-
cation were offered. 

With  respect  to  Doe  6’s  informal  inquiry  at  Tulane,  all 
that the District Court had before it was a single paragraph
in Doe 6’s declaration in which he stated that he spoke to 
an unnamed individual and was told he should not bother 
to  apply  because  he  did  not  have  the  requisite  number  of 
admissions per year.  App. 1310.  Nothing in the record re-
veals the type of privileges about which Doe 6 inquired. 

Doe  6  furnished  even  less  information  about his  formal 
application to East Jefferson hospital—a hospital which of-
fers courtesy privileges, and does not impose an admissions 
requirement for those privileges.  Record 10679.  In his dec-
laration, which he signed in September 2014, Doe 6 wrote
that he had applied but had not received a response.  App.