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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe 1 v. Thornbury

3:23-cv-00230 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: May 3, 2023

In March 2023, the Kentucky legislature voted to override Governor Andy Beshear’s veto and enact Senate Bill 150 (“SB 150”). Set to take effect on June 29, 2023, SB 150 prevented healthcare providers from using puberty blockers and hormone therapy to treat transgender patients under the age of 18. Healthcare professionals who violated SB 150 would have their licenses revoked by the appropriate regulatory agency. The law additionally created a private cause of action for parties to recover damag…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Right to Life of Michigan v. Whitmer

1:23-cv-01189 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2023

On November 8, 2023, Right to Life of Michigan filed this lawsuit to challenge the state's Proposal 3, the ballot initiative that amended Article I, § 28 of the Michigan Constitution to protect reproductive freedom. The plaintiffs alleged that Proposal 3 violated the federal Constitution. Plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan against Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel, and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.  In…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Relf v. Weinberger

73-cv-01557 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 17, 1973

Closed Date: Sept. 13, 1977

On July 17, 1973, a group of private plaintiffs who were victims of sterilization abuse, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, brought a class action lawsuit against the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services), and the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, took issue with sterilization abuse against women that was fun…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Minton v. Dignity Health

CGC 17-558259 | California state trial court

Filed Date: April 19, 2017

Closed Date: July 6, 2022

This case challenged a hospital system’s decision to deny a male transgender patient a hysterectomy as a gender-affirming surgical treatment for gender dysphoria. The plaintiff, represented by the ACLU, filed this action on April 19, 2017, in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, alleging that Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital, violated the Unruh Civil Rights Act by denying him full and equal access to health care treatment. The plaintiff sought declaratory relief,…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Ave Maria University v. Sebelius

2:13-cv-00630 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2013

Closed Date: Oct. 9, 2018

This case is one of the many filed in federal district courts across the country by non-profit Catholic organizations challenging the ACA's system for ensuring that employee health insurance covers birth control. Here, the plaintiff, a Catholic liberal arts college, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), against the U.S. Departments of Health an…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Stewart v. Sebelius

1:13-cv-01879 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 2013

Closed Date: April 6, 2016

This is one of many lawsuits brought challenging the Obama administration's 2012 Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate requiring employers to pay for employees' contraception and abortifacients via medical insurance coverage. Many religious hospitals, charities, universities, and other enterprises owned or controlled by religious organizations or individuals who opposed contraception on doctrinal grounds, argued the mandate violated their religious beliefs. For a full list of these cases plea…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Evans v. Fenty

1:76-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1976

Closed Date: 2017

On February 23, 1976, six residents of Forest Haven, an institution operated by the District of Columbia for developmentally disabled persons, filed this lawsuit against the District's mayor and its Department of Human Resources. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution; the Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 6001 et seq.); and 32 D.C.…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Hastings Automotive v. Sebelius

0:14-cv-00265 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2014

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2014

This is one of many lawsuits brought challenging the Obama administration's 2012 Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate requiring employers to pay for employees' contraception and abortifacients via medical insurance coverage. Many religious hospitals, charities, universities, and other enterprises owned or controlled by religious organizations or individuals who opposed contraception on doctrinal grounds, argued the mandate violated their religious beliefs. For a full list of these cases plea…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Brandt, Bishop of The Roman Catholic Diocese of Greensburg v. Sebelius

2:14-cv-00681 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 27, 2014

Closed Date: 2017

On June 28, 2013, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (the Health Department) issued a final rule concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Mandate). The regulations of the final rule required health insurance plans to provide coverage of contraception and abortifacients, with an exemption for health plans offered by churches and their integrated auxiliaries. The regulations of the Mandate also provide an accommodation for health plans by certain quali…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Stinson Electric, Inc. v. Sebelius

0:14-cv-00830 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: March 26, 2014

Closed Date: 2015

On March 26, 2014, three individual plaintiffs and their wholly-owned family company filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Plaintiffs alleged that the provision of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ACA") that mandated group health plans include coverage for "all [FDA] approved contraceptive …