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Cite as:  586 U. S. ____ (2019) 

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KAVANAUGH, J., dissenting 

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE MEDICAL SERVICES, L.L.C., ET AL. 
v. REBEKAH GEE, SECRETARY, LOUISIANA 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS 

ON APPLICATION FOR STAY 

No. 18A774  Decided February 7, 2019 

The  application  for  a  stay  presented  to  JUSTICE  ALITO 
and by him referred to the Court is granted, and the man-
date  of  the  United  States  Court  of  Appeals  for  the  Fifth 
Circuit in case No. 17-30397 is stayed pending the timely 
filing  and  disposition  of  a  petition  for  a  writ  of  certiorari.
Should the petition for a writ of certiorari be denied, this 
stay  shall  terminate  automatically. 
In  the  event  the 
petition  for  a  writ  of  certiorari  is  granted,  the  stay  shall
terminate  upon  the  sending  down  of  the  judgment  of  this
Court.

 JUSTICE  THOMAS,  JUSTICE  ALITO,  JUSTICE  GORSUCH, 

and  JUSTICE KAVANAUGH would deny the application.

 JUSTICE  KAVANAUGH,  dissenting  from  grant  of  applica-

tion for stay.

I  respectfully  dissent  from  the  Court’s  stay  order.    In 
this  case,  the  plaintiffs  raised  a  pre-enforcement  facial
challenge  to  Louisiana’s  new  admitting-privileges  re-
quirement  for  doctors  who  perform  abortions.    The  Fifth 
Circuit  rejected  the  plaintiffs’  facial  challenge  based  on
that court’s factual prediction that the new law would not 
affect  the  availability  of  abortions  from,  as  relevant  here, 
the four doctors who currently perform abortions at Loui-
siana’s  three  abortion  clinics. 
In  particular,  the  Fifth
Circuit  determined  that  the  four  doctors  likely  could  ob-
tain admitting privileges.  The plaintiffs seek a stay of the 
Fifth  Circuit’s  mandate.    They  argue  that  the  Fifth  Cir-
cuit’s factual prediction is inaccurate because, according to