The Supreme Court strikes down Texas’ Admitting Privileges law as unconstitutional in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt and strongly rejects unnecessary health regulations that restrict access to abortion.

Justice Neil Gorsuch is confirmed to the Supreme Court, filling Justice Scalia’s vacant seat.

A federal district court in Louisiana strikes down Louisiana’s Admitting Privileges law as unconstitutional under Whole Woman’s Health.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of the five-Justice majority in Whole Woman’s Health, announces his retirement.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reverses 2-1, upholding LA’s Admitting Privileges law.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, filling Justice Kennedy’s seat.

Fifth Circuit denies rehearing en banc by a 9-6 vote over 2 dissents pointing out that LA’s law is identical to the TX law struck down in Whole Woman’s Health.

Plaintiff clinics (represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights) ask the Supreme Court for an emergency stay to block enforcement of the law, or else only one doctor would remain able to provide abortions in LA.

By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court grants the clinics’ request to temporarily stop the law from taking effect while the clinics seek Supreme Court review. Justice Kavanaugh writes a dissent.

Medical providers petition the Supreme Court to reverse the Fifth Circuit’s decision to uphold the law, which is in direct conflict with SCOTUS’s opinion in a previous admitting privileges case—Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.

Leading mainstream medical groups like American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and former federal judges and Department of Justice officials, file briefs asking the Supreme Court to reverse the Fifth Circuit’s decision.

Louisiana petitions the Supreme Court, seeking to upend decades of settled Supreme Court case law permitting doctors to challenge anti-abortion laws on behalf of their patients.

Several anti-abortion groups and states that oppose abortion rights file amicus briefs supporting Louisiana.

Louisiana files a brief asking the Supreme Court to allow the law to take effect.

Clinics file a brief asking the Supreme Court to deny Louisiana’s cert petition.

The Supreme Court announces it will hear the case this term, bringing the fight for abortion rights back to the nation’s highest court.

Supreme Court will hear oral arguments from both sides—the Center for Reproductive Rights and the state of Louisiana.