United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, December 12, 2025. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.; Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts; Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Kennedy, Nos. 25-1698 and 25-1755. Opinion by Circuit Judge Gelpí. The panel vacated the district court’s July 21 and July 28, 2025 orders granting preliminary injunctions and remanded for further proceedings.
The court held the appellees were unlikely to succeed on the merits of the bill-of-attainder, First Amendment, and equal-protection claims. The judgment order on RECAP restates the vacatur. A vacatur of a preliminary injunction is not a criminal finding against the district judge. It is the court of appeals taking her two orders off the table.