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  • August 26, 2016

    Amicus Brief: State of Alaska v. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest

    NHeLP and the Northern Justice Project filed an amicus brief in support of Planned Parenthood and urging affirmance of the lower court's decision. The case involves a challenge to a state law limiting abortion coverage for Medicaid-eligible women in Alaska.

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  • July 22, 2016

    Darjee v. Betlach, District of Arizona

    Litigation Team

    Low-income immigrant residents of Arizona who were eligible for full Medicaid benefits, but whose benefits were reduced to emergency-only benefits, filed suit against the state Medicaid agency for preventing them from accessing the full scope of necessary medical care. Plaintiffs alleged that these benefit reductions violated the obligation to…

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  • June 6, 2016

    NHeLP Letter of Support for SB 10

    In a letter to Gov. Edmund G. Brown, NHeLP expresses support for SB 10, which would allow undocumented immigrants and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients to purchase unsubsidized health coverage through the state marketplace, Covered California.

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  • February 19, 2016

    NHeLP Amicus Brief: Zubik v. Burwell

    This case will decide whether non-profit employers are able to deny their employees access to contraceptive services on religious grounds. NHeLP's brief, joined by American Public Health Association, National Hispanic Medical Association, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, National Women's Health Network, Ipas, Asian Americans Advancing Justice |…

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  • November 20, 2015

    O.B. v. Norwood, Northern District of Illinois and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

    Litigation Team and

    Class of children with disabilities and complex medical needs enrolled in Medicaid in Illinois challenged the Medicaid agency’s failure to provide or arrange for medically necessary in-home nursing services, as required by Medicaid’s Early and Periodic, Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment requirements and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Absent sufficient…

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  • September 29, 2015

    Writ of Mandate Order: Rivera v. Douglas

    External Source

    The Petition of Petitioners Frances Rivera, Mark Mullin, Ebony Pickett, Groto Ni and Maternal and Child Health Access ("Petitioners") for Ordinary Writ of Mandate (CCP § 1085), came on regularly for hearing on May 18, 2015, in Department 14 of the above-entitled court, the Honorable Evelio Grub presiding.

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