Carolyn Kuhl

• While at the Justice Department, Kuhl was instrumental in persuading the Reagan administration to support the tax exempt status of Bob Jones University which had been revoked because of racially discriminatory policies.

• Co-authored the government's brief in Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists which fought for the "outright reversal of Roe." She argued that the Roe decision was "flawed."

• Fought for the gag rule and parental notification for young women. She has also fought for detailed intrusive reporting requirements which forced women to disclose personal information such as the date of their last menstrual cycle, their race, marital status and where they lived.

• Member of the Federalist Society, an ultra-conservative legal organization.

• Wrote a brief in 1990 on behalf of the American Academy of Medical Ethics in which she argued that prohibiting doctors who receive federal funds from discussing abortion did not violate First Amendment guarantees of free speech.

• Kuhl dismissed a patient's argument that a doctor had violated her privacy by allowing a pharmaceutical salesman to be in the room while conducting a breast cancer evaluation in Sanchez-Scott v. Alza Pharmaceuticals, a decision that was immediately overturned on appeal.

• She refused to hear a case filed by a whistleblower about falsification of documents and destruction of medical records in Moore v. Hong Liu, ignoring California's free-speech laws.

• Kuhl also represented Shell Oil, defending the company against having to pay for cleanup of contaminated land.

last updated 11/17/03