Opinion ID: 787069
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Planned Parenthood

Text: 34 Planned Parenthood's standing poses different questions. Unlike Planned Parenthood affiliates in several other states who have been found to have standing to challenge abortion regulations, see, e.g., Planned Parenthood of Wis. v. Doyle, 162 F.3d 463, 465 (7th Cir.1998), the Idaho chapter does not provide abortion services directly. Instead, the Idaho chapter provides only counseling, contraceptive, and referral services. 35 Idaho contends that Planned Parenthood therefore lacks standing. Unlike Weyhrich, Planned Parenthood's conduct is not threatened by enforcement of the statute, and it can, under Idaho law, have no abortion patients whose interests it may espouse. If Planned Parenthood can enunciate no more than an ideological interest in seeing the statute invalidated, it lacks standing to challenge it. Id. 36 On appeal, Planned Parenthood articulates no independent theory for its standing. It instead piggybacks on Weyhrich, defending the district court's conclusion that because Planned Parenthood shares an attorney with Weyhrich, its presence in the suit poses no threat of enhanced legal fees, and that because Weyhrich has standing, we need not decide whether Planned Parenthood may maintain this suit. 37 We agree that there is no reason to address Planned Parenthood's standing. Where the legal issues on appeal are fairly raised by one plaintiff [who] had standing to bring the suit, the court need not consider the standing of the other plaintiffs. Laub v. U.S. Dep't of the Interior, 342 F.3d 1080, 1086 (9th Cir.2003) (citing and explaining Watt v. Energy Action Educ. Found., 454 U.S. 151, 160, 102 S.Ct. 205, 70 L.Ed.2d 309 (1981), and Arlington Heights v. Metro. Housing Dev. Corp., 429 U.S. 252, 264 & n. 9, 97 S.Ct. 555, 50 L.Ed.2d 450 (1977)); Guam Soc'y of Obstetricians & Gynecologists v. Ada, 962 F.2d 1366, 1369 (9th Cir.1992); see also Planned Parenthood of Cent. N.J. v. Farmer, 220 F.3d 127, 147 n. 10 (3d Cir.2000). As our jurisdiction and our duty to answer the questions raised here would be unaffected by the resolution of Idaho's challenge to Planned Parenthood's standing, we decline to decide the issue. 6 38