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Update

A year ago, Lifeline reported on the efforts of attorney Michael Sharman to close a Planned Parenthood facility in Charlottesville, Virginia, for violation of local zoning laws. (LifelineVol. XV, No. 2) Mr. Sharman recently sent this update: On July 25, 2007, the circuit court judge denied Planned Parenthood’s summary judgment motion, on the basis of a prior default judgment entered against it. The combined effect of the declaratory judgment Decree of April 2006 and the July 25, 2007 summary judgment ruling is that Planned Parenthood: a) is judicially deemed to be operating a medical center or hospital in an area without the proper zoning to do so, and b) cannot deny those charges in this case.
It is the plaintiff landowners’ firm belief that with those powerful rulings now securely lodged in the case file, they are now only one or two more hearings away from finally closing Planned Parenthood’s doors in Charlottesville.
[Back issues of Lifeline are available at http://lldf.org/newsletter.htm, the article referenced may be found under Summer 2006.—Ed.]