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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- January 3, 2024
Isaac v. Carlson, Northern District Court of Georgia
Litigation Team CasesRead moreCivil rights attorneys filed a class action lawsuit today charging Georgia officials with violating federal law for their well-documented, longstanding failure…
- 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…
- 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
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…
- May 26, 2021
Wit v. United Behavioral Health Care, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Read moreNational Health Law Program (NHeLP), the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School and 26…
- February 2, 2021
Amicus: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Williams, Eighth Circuit
Litigation Team CasesRead morePhRMA is challenging a 2020 Minnesota law designed to ensure that people with diabetes can access the insulin they…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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…