The question
Whether the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts an Idaho law that bans abortion except to prevent the mother's death.
Moyle v. United States
What the Court decided
The Court dismissed the case without deciding it, dropping the appeal as improvidently granted and lifting the stay it had earlier entered. The effect is to leave the dispute over whether the federal emergency-care law overrides Idaho's abortion ban to be resolved in the lower courts, without a ruling from the Supreme Court on the merits.
How the justices split
DismissedPer curiam (unsigned)
Delivered by the Court
The Court dismissed the writs as improvidently granted and vacated its earlier stays, leaving the preemption question over Idaho's abortion law and the federal emergency-care statute to proceed in the lower courts without a merits decision here.
How we know · 2 sourced claims
The Court dismissed the case as improvidently granted and vacated the January 5, 2024 stays.
Source: syllabus, Held, at 23-726
The dismissal leaves the EMTALA preemption question to the lower courts without a merits ruling.
Source: opinion (per curiam)