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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- October 11, 2023
Voe v. Mansfield, Middle District of North Carolina
Litigation Team CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program (NHeLP) and Lambda Legal sued the State of North Carolina to block implementation of a…
- February 16, 2023
AMICUS: Fain v. Crouch, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Litigation Team CasesRead moreMedicaid beneficiaries challenged a West Virginia policy excluding coverage of gender-affirming surgery. The district court granted summary judgment for…
- February 16, 2023
Dekker v. Weida, Northern District of Florida
Litigation Team CasesRead moreFour transgender Medicaid beneficiaries filed a lawsuit challenging a Florida regulation that prohibits coverage of medically necessary gender-affirming care.…
- November 2, 2022
Franklin v. Kinsley, Eastern District of North Carolina
Litigation Team CasesRead moreThis case was formerly known as Hawkins v. Cohen. Adults and children enrolled in Medicaid filed a class action…
- 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…
- 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…
- September 23, 2020
Amicus: State of N.Y., et al. v. U.S. Dep’t Health & Human Servs., Southern District of New York
Litigation Team CasesRead moreNational Health Law Program (NHeLP), Justice in Aging, and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) submitted an amicus…
- August 19, 2020
Doe v. Snyder, Ninth Circuit
Litigation Team CasesRead moreTwo transgender young people enrolled in Medicaid filed a class action lawsuit challenging an Arizona regulation that prohibits coverage…
- August 18, 2020
Amicus: State of Washington v. U.S. Dep’t Health & Human Servs., Western District of Washington
Litigation Team CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program filed this brief, signed by 11 other organizations in support of the State of…
- 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 26, 2020
A.M.C. v. Smith, Middle District of Tennessee
Read moreThirty-five children and adults from across Tennessee brought a class action challenging the State for wrongfully terminating people’s health…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- 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 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…
