The following are court cases at the Federal and State levels that we are tracking and/or taking action on.
US Supreme Court
Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
Federal law plainly dictates that Medicaid patients may access care with any qualified provider, but anti-choice politicians are trying to change that.
This case threatens to impact not just Planned Parenthood patients, but ALL Medicaid patients, because it attacks the federal law allowing patients to choose their providers.
Louisiana v. Phillip Callais, et al.
Over the State’s strenuous objections, the Middle District of Louisiana held,
Robinson v. Ardoin, 605 F. Supp. 3d 759 (M.D. La. 2022)-and the Fifth Circuit affirmed,
Robinson v. Ardoin, 86 F.4th 574 (5th Cir. 2023)-that Louisiana likely violated Section 2
of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by failing to create a second majority-Black
congressional district. The Fifth Circuit gave the Legislature a small window of time to
adopt its own remedial plan, or else the State would have to go to trial, which would
almost certainly end in the Middle District imposing its own preferred map. Rather than
acquiesce in the Middle District’s preferences, the Legislature reclaimed its sovereign
redistricting pen and passed S.B. 8, which created a second majority-Black district as
the courts demanded, protected the Legislature’s sovereign prerogatives, and achieved
its political goals.
L.W. V. Skrmetti / U.S. v. Skrmetti
Samantha and Brian Williams of Nashville, TN and their 15-year-old transgender daughter are challenging a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender people under 18. Tennessee is home to over 3,000 transgender adolescents and the health care banned by this law is supported by the entire mainstream of the medical community.
B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education
Becky is a middle school student in West Virginia. She has been a cheerleader and wants the opportunity to try out for the cross-country team. A new law in West Virginia would ban her from doing so because she is transgender. Becky and her parents sued and are represented by the ACLU, the ACLU of West Virginia, Lambda Legal and Cooley LLP.
