Here is a link to a LifeNews story about the dismissal of the Cenzon-DeCarlo case. http://www.lifenews.com/2010/11/23/state-5691/ Here is a link to the opinion. http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/2d1434d5-91d7-4482-a862-b1a3c100413a/3/doc/10-556_op%20%28PC%29.pdf#xml=http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/2d1434d5-91d7-4482-a862-b1a3c100413a/3/hilite/
Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo, a pro-life nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital, was threatened with disciplinary measures if she didn’t participate in an abortion. After the abortion, Cenzon-DeCarlo filed suit on the grounds that the hospital had violated the Church Amendment, which protects doctors and nurses from being forced to participate in abortions. In a decision yesterday, a federal court of appeals dismissed the suit on the grounds that the federal law does not allow private parties to sue to enforce the law.
Cenzon-DeCarlo still has a state case pending.
Richard M.
Richard Myers
Richard S. Myers, the Vice-President of UFL, is Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law, where he teaches Antitrust, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, and Religious Freedom. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kenyon College and earned his law degree at Notre Dame, where he won the law school's highest academic prize. He began his legal career by clerking for Judge John F. Kilkenny of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Myers also worked for Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C. He taught at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law before joining the Ave Maria faculty. He is a co-editor of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition: Contemporary Perspectives (Catholic University of American Press, 2004) and a co-editor of Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (Scarecrow Press, 2007). He has also published extensively on constitutional law in law reviews and also testified before Congressional and state legislative hearings on life issues.
Married to Mollie Murphy, who is also on the faculty at Ave Maria School of Law, they are the proud parents of six children - Michael, Patrick, Clare, Kathleen, Matthew, and Andrew. http://www.avemarialaw.edu/index.cfm?event=faculty.bio&pid=11705E7D4E0111010366
