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  • May 21, 2020

    A.A. v. Gee, Middle District of Louisiana

    Litigation Team

    Medicaid eligible children who require intensive home and community-based mental health services challenged Louisiana’s failure to arrange for or provide those medically necessary services. The failure to provide these services has forced thousands of Louisiana children to unnecessarily cycle in and out of hospitals and psychiatric facilities far away…

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  • February 19, 2020

    A.J. vs Gee, Middle District of Louisiana

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    Medicaid eligible children who require in-home nursing services challenged Louisiana’s failure to arrange for or provide those medically necessary services. The failure to provide in-home nursing services puts these children at serious risk of harm and institutionalization.

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  • February 10, 2020

    Karen Vaughn v. Jennifer Walthall, et al., 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

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    Karen Vaughn has lived in the community for decades with the nursing and other services she needs. In 2016 she went to the hospital for what was expected to be a short stay but then could not find the Medicaid-funded nursing services she needed to return home. Ms. Vaughn…

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  • August 16, 2019

    La Clinica De La Raza et al v. Trump, Northern District of California

    Litigation Team

    Nonprofits serving immigrant communities filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s “public charge” regulation. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, individuals seeking admission to the U.S. or seeking to adjust their status to lawful permanent residence may be denied if they are "likely at any time to become a…

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  • May 24, 2018

    Ivory N. v. Kent, Northern District of California

    Litigation Team and

    Medicaid eligible children who require in-home nursing services challenged California’s failure to arrange for or provide those medically necessary services. The failure to provide in-home nursing services puts these children at serious risk of harm and institutionalization. Partners: Disability Rights California, Western Center on Law and Poverty

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  • May 18, 2018

    Amicus: United States v. California, Eastern District of California, 9th Circuit

    Litigation Team and

    The National Health Law Program submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the organization, and 42 other legal health organizations, and human and civil rights advocates, and labor groups opposing the Trump administration's heavy-handed effort to overturn three California laws that provide vital protections for immigrants in their communities,…

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