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.
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- April 3, 2024
G.A. et al v. Bimestefer, District Court of Colorado
Litigation Team CasesRead morePlaintiffs are Disability Rights Colorado and three children on Medicaid who have serious behavioral health needs. As a result,…
- March 12, 2024
DOJ and OCR Complaints: Complaints Filed Against Medicaid Programs in DC and Texas
Elizabeth Edwards, Jane Perkins, and Litigation Team CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program (NHeLP), together with Disability Rights DC at University Legal Services (DRDC) and Disability Rights…
- January 6, 2023
C.A. v. Garcia, United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
Litigation Team CasesRead morePlaintiffs are Medicaid-eligible children with a serious emotional disturbance who need intensive home and community-based services to treat or…
- August 31, 2022
S.J, et. al v. Knodell, Western District of Missouri
Read moreThis case was formerly known as S.J v. Tidball. Nine children with medically complex conditions who are enrolled in…
- May 9, 2022
C.K. v. Bassett, Eastern District of N.Y.
Read morePlaintiffs are two children on Medicaid who have been deprived of the intensive mental health services necessary for them…
- June 11, 2021
L.S. by and through Ron S. v. Delia, Eastern District of North Carolina and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Litigation Team CasesRead moreThis class action was filed on behalf of a class of North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities who…
- June 11, 2021
Cyrus ex rel. McSweeney v. Nusbaum, Southern District of West Virginia
Litigation Team CasesRead moreIn 2004, a class of recipients of West Virginia’s Medicaid HCBS waiver program for older adults and people with…
- June 11, 2021
Salazar v. District of Columbia, D.C. District Court, D.C. Circuit
Litigation Team CasesRead moreThis class action was originally brought in 1996 on behalf of children and adults who had applied for Medicaid,…
- November 19, 2020
Amicus: N.R. v. Raytheon Company, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
Litigation Team CasesRead moreNational Health Law Program, Autism Legal Research Center and eight other organizations submitted an amicus brief in the First…
- September 23, 2020
Katie A. v. Los Angeles County, Central District of California/Western Division
Litigation Team CasesRead moreKatie A. v. Bonta is a class action lawsuit that was filed in July 2002 against California’s State Departments…
- September 23, 2020
T.R. v. Dreyfus, U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
Litigation Team CasesRead moreThis class action lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) was brought on behalf…
- September 22, 2020
Katie A. v. Bonta, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Litigation Team CasesRead moreKatie A. v. Bonta is a class action lawsuit that was filed in July 2002 against California’s State Departments…
- June 11, 2020
K.B. v. Michigan D.H.H.S., Eastern District of Michigan
Read moreA class of Medicaid-eligible children with intensive mental health care needs who are at risk of avoidable psychiatric hospitalizations…
- May 21, 2020
A.A. v. Gee, Middle District of Louisiana
Litigation Team CasesRead moreMedicaid eligible children who require intensive home and community-based mental health services challenged Louisiana’s failure to arrange for or…
- February 19, 2020
A.J. vs Gee, Middle District of Louisiana
Read moreMedicaid eligible children who require in-home nursing services challenged Louisiana’s failure to arrange for or provide those medically necessary…
- February 10, 2020
Karen Vaughn v. Jennifer Walthall, et al., 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Read moreKaren Vaughn has lived in the community for decades with the nursing and other services she needs. In 2016…
- 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…
- 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…
- May 31, 2011
Pashby v. Cansler, Eastern District of North Carolina
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreClass of Medicaid beneficiaries who received in-home personal care services challenged State’s decision to narrow the standards for assessing…