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City of Fresno v. Scott Turner

3:25-cv-07070 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2025

During his first eight months in office, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders that directed government agencies to add new conditions to federal grants, including, Executive Order 14168, which instructed agencies to end funding of “gender ideology” and ensure grants did not promote it,  Executive Order 14173, which directed agencies to ban programs promoting Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and make compliance “material” under the False Claims Act, and Executive Order 1433…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Illinois Baptist State Association v. Illinois Department of Insurance

2020MR000325 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: June 10, 2020

This case is about a challenge to an Illinois law requiring health insurance policies to provide coverage for abortions. On June 10, 2020, the Illinois Baptist State Association, two Illinois corporations–Southland Smiles, Ltd. and Rock River Cartage, Inc.–and two Illinois residents filed suit against the Illinois Department of Insurance and its Director (collectively, the “Illinois Department of Insurance” or “IDOI”)) in state trial court. The plaintiffs sought judicial review of the state’s R…

Judgment for Defendant

Appeal Pending

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Kahoʻohanohano v. State of Hawaiʻi

1CCV-24-0000269 | Hawaii state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 2024

This case involves a challenge to midwife licensure restrictions in Hawai’i. In 2019, Hawai’i enacted the midwifery restriction law (HRS § 457J), which imposed licensure requirements on midwives in the state. Individuals practicing midwifery without a license, or working alongside unlicensed midwives, faced criminal penalties. The law had an exemption that allowed the practice of midwifery without a license through July 2023.  On February 27, 2024, nine individuals–midwives, midwifery students,…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Skyline Wesleyan Church v. California Department of Managed Health Care

3:16-cv-00501 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2016

Closed Date: May 11, 2023

This is a case about insurance coverage for abortion. Skyline Wesleyan Church, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), brought this lawsuit against the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) in the San Diego County Superior Court on February 4, 2016, challenging a California mandate that group health insurance plans provide coverage for all legal abortions. Plaintiff, a non-profit Christian church offering health insurance to employees, objected on religious grounds to…

Settled: Case Closed

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Montana v. State of Montana

DV 21-999 | Montana state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2021

Planned Parenthood of Montana and a physician brought this lawsuit challenging several laws restricting abortion, including a 20-week abortion ban, a heartbeat bill, ultrasound viewing, and restrictions on the use of abortion-inducing medications. On August 16, 2021, Planned Parenthood of Montana and a private physician who provided abortion care at Planned Parenthood of Montana (collectively, “PPMT”), sued, on behalf of themselves and their patients, the State of Montana through their Attorney…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. Georgia

2022CV367796 | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: July 26, 2022

On July 26, 2022, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Collective, Feminist Women’s Health Center, Planned Parenthood Southeast, Atlanta Comprehensive Wellness Clinic, Atlanta Women’s Medical Center, Femhealth, Summit Medical Associates, Medical Students for Choice, and three physicians filed suit against the state of Georgia in the Superior Court for Fulton County (Georgia state trial court). The plaintiffs challenged the state's Six-Week Ban on abortion and the Records Access Provision enac…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
MKB Management Corp v. Burdick

1:13-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: June 25, 2013

Closed Date: April 15, 2016

This is a case about North Dakota’s 2013 ban on abortions as early as the sixth week of pregnancy. On June 25, 2013, the plaintiffs—including the last women’s health clinic in the state that provided abortions and a physician who performed family planning services, including abortions, for the clinic’s clients—filed this lawsuit in the District of North Dakota. The plaintiffs sued the state attorney for the county in which the clinic was located, the state attorney general, and the North Dakota…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braid v. Stilley

1:21-cv-05283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

The Center for Reproductive Rights and private counsel filed this suit on October 5, 2021 on behalf of a physician who violated S.B. 8, the Texas law banning abortion care at approximately six weeks of pregnancy, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was an interpleader action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act and sought a declaration that S.B. 8 was unconstitutional. The case was assigned to Judge Jorge Alonso.  The interpleader action was brought …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States of America v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.

2:21-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2021

On February 5, 2021 an anonymous plaintiff, “Relator Alex Doe,” brought this civil fraud action on behalf of the United States, Texas, and Louisiana against Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and other Planned Parenthood affiliates in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Amarillo Division. The plaintiff sought to recover damages and civil penalties they alleged were owed to the United States, Texas, and Louisiana as a result of Planned Parenthood having presen…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
West Alabama Women's Center v. Marshall

2:23-cv-00450 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 31, 2023

This case is the result of a consolidation of two lawsuits about reproductive rights in Alabama. On July 31, 2023, the Alabama Women's Center and the West Alabama Women's Center, two reproductive health care facilities, filed their lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. On the same day, the Yellowhammer Fund, a reproductive rights organization, filed a similar lawsuit in the same court. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the Lawyering Project, and …