certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the eighth circuit. Following this Court’s Stenberg v. 05–380. No. All the lower courts agreed, and they culminated in the Carhart case being heard at the U.S. Supreme Court. Gonzales v. Carhart was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. In Gonzales v.Carhart (2007), the US Supreme Court held in a five-to-four decision that the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act passed by the US Congress was constitutional. GONZALES, ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CARHART et al. Although the Court previously ruled in Stenberg v.Carhart (2000) that a Nebraska law that prohibited partial-birth abortions was unconstitutional, Gonzales reversed this decision. Also before the Supreme Court was the consolidated appeal of Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood from the United States Court of Appeals for the … Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124 (2007), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. Argued November 8, 2006—Decided April 18, 2007. Gonzales v. Carhart 550 U.S. 124 Decided: April 18, 2007. In April 2007, the Supreme Court held 5-4 that the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act was constitutional, accepting Congress’s judgment that a health exception was unnecessary and noting that Congress has an interest in protecting women from harm that results from abortion procedures. GONZALES V. CARHART SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. The case reached the high court after U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appealed a ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in favor of LeRoy Carhart that struck down the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.