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  • September 18, 2026

    Taylor et al. v. Kennedy, Jr. et al (U.S. District Court, Maryland)

    Litigation Team

    The lawsuit challenges key provisions of an interim final rule implementing HR 1’s Medicaid work requirements.  Even though Congress categorically excluded medically frail people from the work requirements, the rule introduces restrictions on who qualifies and also imposes burdensome verification requirements for the medical frailty exclusion. The rule places millions…

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  • September 10, 2026

    AMICUS: Massachusetts v. Oz (District Court of Massachusetts)

    Litigation Team

    The National Health Law Program (NHeLP), the Center for Public Representation, and 69 additional organizations filed this amicus brief detailing how the Trump administration’s Medicaid work requirements rule will strip health coverage from people with serious illnesses and disabilities. The brief supports the plaintiff states’ motion for partial summary…

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  • May 11, 2026

    Bessey v. Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (District Court of Lancaster County)

    Litigation Team

    Legal Aid of Nebraska, joined by Nebraska Appleseed, the National Health Law Program, and TechTonic Justice, has filed a lawsuit against the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), challenging the State’s use of its new assessment system, which uses an algorithm to cut Medicaid home-care services for many individuals…

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  • February 17, 2023

    Carr v. Becerra, District of Connecticut

    Litigation Team

    Plaintiffs in Carr v. Becerra challenged an Interim Final Rule that required states to trim their Medicaid rolls in violation of the “Families First Coronavirus Response Act,” passed by Congress in March 2020. In exchange for receiving billions of dollars of additional federal funding, states are forbidden under that…

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  • May 20, 2022

    AMICUS: Georgia v. Brooks-LaSure,Southern District of Georgia, Brunswick Division

    Litigation Team

    In late 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rescinded its 2020 approval of work requirements and premiums in Georgia. Georgia filed suit to challenge the withdrawal. The National Health Law Program, along with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Georgians for a Healthy Future, Georgia Legal Services Program,…

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  • March 29, 2022

    McCutchen v. Becerra, D.D.C.

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    Thirteen Medicaid enrollees, a pediatrician, and the Tennessee Justice Center are challenging the approval of the TennCare III project as a violation of the APA. The approval caps the amount of federal funding available to the State, continues Tennessee's decades-long waiver of retroactive coverage, and permits the State to…

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