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Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra

4:20-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2020

Case Ongoing

On June 11, 2019 — more than nine years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law—the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that health insurance cover preexposure prophylaxis  (PrEP) drugs without any cost-sharing arrangements such as co-payments or deductibles. On March 29, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Plaintiffs filed a complaint, challenging the PrEP mandate as well as a prior contraception mandate. Plaintiffs, individuals a…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Comprehensive Health v. Hawley

1716-CV24109 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2017

Closed Date: June 28, 2019

On October 10, 2017, the ACLU, the ACLU of Missouri, and Planned Parenthood filed suit in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, challenging a new abortion restriction that was scheduled to take effect on October 24, 2017. This mandate, often referred to as the “same-physician requirement,” would require a patient to receive certain state-scripted information in-person from the physician providing her medical care, at least 72 hours before an abortion. Plaintiffs argue that this mandate…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Edwards v. Beck

4:13-cv-00224 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 16, 2013

Case Ongoing

On April 16, 2013, two Arkansas physicians ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas challenging the Arkansas General Assembly's ban on abortion starting at twelve weeks of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights, sued fifteen members of the Arkansas State Medical Board, including the board's president, and asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent enforcement of …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner, Indiana State Department of Health

1:16-cv-00763 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 7, 2016

Closed Date: July 18, 2022

This case challenged new abortion restrictions in Indiana. On April 7, 2016, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) and two medical professionals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued the Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health, the prosecutors of Marion, Lake, Monroe, and Tippecanoe Counties, and the individual members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana, all in their official capacities. Represe…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner, Indiana State Department of Health

1:18-cv-01219 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 23, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2022

This is a case about challenges to abortion restrictions in Indiana. On March 25, 2018, the Indiana governor signed Indiana Senate Enrolled Act No. 340 into law, which required physicians to report “all abortion complications.” The act defined abortion complications as “any adverse physical or psychological condition arising from the induction or performance of an abortion” and imposed licensing consequences on providers who failed to report after July 1, 2018, and criminal consequences beginni…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Maryland, Inc. v. Azar

1:20-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the government’s adoption of the separate billing rule, which reinterpreted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and required health insurance plans on the individual marketplace to send policyholders a separate bill and receive separate payment for the abortion-related portion of plan premiums. On February 11, 2020, Planned Parenthood of Maryland and individuals who wanted to maintain abortion coverage through their qualified health plans filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District C…
EDUCATION
Cook v. McKee

1:18-cv-00645 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2022

On November 28, 2018, fourteen public school students filed this putative class action lawsuit against the State of Rhode Island and its state officials in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.  Represented by Michael Rebel, the executive director of the Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, as well as the the Rhode Island Center for Justice and a private law firm, the students alleged that the State had deprived them of their rights under t…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

1:14-cv-00284 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 2, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging a 2013 Texas law requiring (1) a physician providing abortion services to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital no farther than 30 miles from the clinic and (2) abortion clinics to meet the building specifications of ambulatory surgical centers. On April 2, 2014, a group of Texas abortion clinics and physicians filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and their patients in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the c…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
June Medical Services LLC v. Caldwell

3:14-cv-00525 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Louisiana. Act 620 prevented doctors from providing abortion services in the state unless they secured admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where they provide abortion care. On August 22, 2014, three women's reproductive health clinics and two individual doctors who perform abortions filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of Lo…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Weems v. Montana

ADV-2018-73 | Montana state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case about abortion rights in Montana. On January 30, 2018, a nurse practitioner and a nurse midwife in Montana filed this suit in the Montana First Judicial District Court. The plaintiffs sued the state of Montana, alleging that state laws that allowed only physicians and physician assistants to perform abortions violated the state Constitution. The plaintiffs were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. They sought a declaratory judg…