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In '''''Hodgson v. Minnesota''''', 497 U.S. 417 (1990, the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] struck down as unconstitutional a [[Minnesota]] law requiring that notice be given to both parents before an [[abortion]] is performed on a minor.

In '''''Hodgson v. Minnesota''''', 497 U.S. 417 (1990, the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] struck down as unconstitutional a [[Minnesota]] law requiring that notice be given to both parents before an [[abortion]] is performed on a minor but, based on a plurality decision by Justice Kennedy, upheld a two-parent notification statute that includes a judicial bypass provision.

Justice [[John Paul Stevens]] wrote the opinion for the 5-4 Court, joined by Justice [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] and the [[liberal]] wing of the Court.  Justice [[Anthony Kennedy]] dissented along with the [[conservative]] wing of the Court.

Justice [[John Paul Stevens]] wrote the opinion for the 5-4 Court, joined by Justice [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] and the [[liberal]] wing of the Court.  Justice [[Anthony Kennedy]] dissented along with the [[conservative]] wing of the Court.  Justice Kennedy objected to how the Court majority interpreted an earlier abortion precedent, an approach he also took in his dissent in ''[[Stenberg v. Carhart]]'', in which Justice Kennedy objected to how the Court interpreted ''[[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]]''.

The ''Hodgson'' court upheld a judicial bypass provision that essentially operated as a rubber-stamp approval system, resulting in courts granting more than 99.5% of the abortion requests without notice to a parent.

 

The ''Hodgson'' court upheld a judicial bypass provision that resulted in courts granting more than 99.5% of the abortion requests without notice to a parent.

[[category:United States Supreme Court Cases]]

[[category:United States Supreme Court Cases]]

[[category:abortion]]

[[category:abortion]]