In partnership with state health advocates, the National Health Law Program litigates on behalf of low-income people, people with disabilities, and organizations serving these groups. Many of our cases have changed institutional practices and set lasting health care precedents. While each state is different, cases in one state can create important precedents and models for advocates across the country.
- Show all
- Administrative Complaint
- Administrative Procedure Act
- Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Amicus
- Behavioral Health
- Cost Sharing and Premiums
- Covered Services
- Due Process
- Eligibility Determinations
- EPSDT
- Federal and State Court Cases
- Home and Community Based Services
- Immigration
- June Medical Services v. Gee
- Managed Care
- Medicaid
- Non-Discrimination
- Notice and Hearings
- Olmstead
- Oral Health
- Prescription Drugs
- Private Enforcement of Medicaid
- Provider Participation
- Public Health
- Reproductive Rights
- Section 1557
- Waivers
- August 16, 2019
La Clinica De La Raza et al v. Trump, Northern District of California
Litigation Team CasesRead moreNonprofits serving immigrant communities filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s “public charge” regulation. Under the Immigration and Nationality…
- May 20, 2019
Philbrick v. Becerra, D.D.C., D.C. Circuit, and Supreme Court
Litigation Team CasesRead moreFour low-income individuals from New Hampshire enrolled in Medicaid filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging…
- January 22, 2019
Amicus: Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic v. Baker
Read moreThe National Health Law Program filed an amicus brief in support of Planned Parenthood urging the Court to reject…
- November 5, 2018
Gresham v. Becerra, D.D.C., D.C. Circuit and, Supreme Court
Litigation Team CasesRead moreArkansas residents enrolled in Medicaid filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its approval of a Section 1115…
- October 19, 2018
Amicus: Tennessee v. U.S. Department of State, Sixth Circuit
Read moreTennessee challenged the federal Medicaid statute’s requirement to provide Medicaid coverage to refugees as unconstitutionally coercive. Our amicus brief…
- May 24, 2018
Ivory N. v. Kent, Northern District of California
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreMedicaid eligible children who require in-home nursing services challenged California’s failure to arrange for or provide those medically necessary…
- May 18, 2018
Amicus: United States v. California, Eastern District of California, 9th Circuit
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the organization, and 42 other legal health…
- April 30, 2018
Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Western District of Wisconsin
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreTwo transgender Wisconsin residents enrolled in Medicaid challenged the State’s discriminatory prohibition on covering medically necessary treatments for gender…
- January 24, 2018
Stewart v. Azar, D.D.C. and D.C. Circuit
Litigation Team and Jane Perkins CasesRead moreSixteen Kentuckians enrolled in Medicaid filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its approval of a…
- October 21, 2017
Amicus: California v. Trump, Northern District of California
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program filed an amicus brief in support of California, urging the Court to require the…
- October 13, 2017
Amicus: Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas v. Smith, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program filed an amicus brief in support of Planned Parenthood, urging the Court to reject…
- October 18, 2016
J.E.M. et al. v. Kinkade, Western District of Missouri
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreMissouri Medicaid beneficiaries with hepatitis C brought a lawsuit to challenge Missouri’s policy denying them access to direct-acting antiretroviral…
- August 8, 2016
Amicus: Alaska v. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, Supreme Court of the State of Alaska
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program and the Northern Justice Project filed an amicus brief in support of Planned Parenthood,…
- July 22, 2016
Darjee v. Betlach, District of Arizona
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreLow-income immigrant residents of Arizona who were eligible for full Medicaid benefits, but whose benefits were reduced to emergency-only…
- February 17, 2016
Amicus: Zubik v. Burwell, Supreme Court of the United States
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive…
- November 20, 2015
O.B. v. Norwood, Northern District of Illinois and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreClass of children with disabilities and complex medical needs enrolled in Medicaid in Illinois challenged the Medicaid agency’s failure…
- August 25, 2014
Jackson Health System’s Failure to Comply with Requirements of 26 U.S.C. § 501, Internal Revenue Service
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreGround-breaking IRS complaint filed against the Jackson Health System, Miami-Dade County’s publicly funded health care system, alleging that the…
- May 29, 2014
Discriminatory Pharmacy Benefits Design in Select Qualified Health Plans Offered in Florida, Office of Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreComplaint to the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requesting that federal…
- March 22, 2014
Amicus: Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius, Supreme Court of the United States
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s…
- December 5, 2013
Amicus brief: NFIB v. Sebelius (Affordable Care Act)
Read moreNHeLP amicus brief in support of the Affordable Care Act.
