- Docket No.
- 25-01755
- Appellate Court
- First Circuit
Goal
- Block enforcement of a law
- Declaration that a law is unlawful
Issues
Case History
Litigation Content
Why This Matters:
The plaintiffs challenge a provision in the recently enacted reconciliation legislation prohibiting any health centers associated with Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursement for one year as violating the First Amendment, Equal Protection Clause and Bill of Attainder Clause of the Constitution. Planned Parenthood’s clinics provide access to care for many clinically underserved and low-income populations, and this provision could force clinics to close or reduce their service areas, eroding access to maternal health care and other non-abortion services.
Potential Impact:
Terminating funding could force Planned Parenthood to close centers and eliminate essential services, which would leave countless individuals without necessary access to sexual and reproductive health care, as well as general preventive health services.
24 Major Filings
- SCHEDULING ORDER (Sep 23, 2025)
- ORDER ON MOTION FOR STAY AND SCHEDULING ORDER (Sep 18, 2025)
- AMICUS BRIEF (STATE OF LOUISIANA) (Sep 17, 2025)
- DEFENDANTS' RESPONSE RE: MOTION TO RECONSIDER (Sep 17, 2025)
- DEFENDANTS' RESPONSE TO MOTION TO RECONSIDER STAY (Sep 17, 2025)
- SCHEDULING ORDER (Sep 16, 2025)
- PLAINTIFFS' MOTION TO RECONSIDER STAY (Sep 16, 2025)
- AMICUS BRIEF [AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE] (Sep 11, 2025)
- AMICUS BRIEF [LOUISIANA] (Sep 11, 2025)
- ORDER ON DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO STAY (Sep 11, 2025)
- ORDER (Sep 8, 2025)
- DEFENDANTS' REPLY RE: MOTION FOR STAY (Sep 5, 2025)
- PLAINTIFFS' RESPONSE TO MOTION FOR STAY (Sep 3, 2025)
- AMICUS BRIEF [AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE] (Sep 3, 2025)
- SCHEDULING ORDER (Aug 28, 2025)
- DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR STAY (Aug 28, 2025)
- AMICUS BRIEF (American Center for Law and Justice) (Aug 26, 2025)
- AMICUS BRIEF OF THE AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS’ MOTION TO STAY (Aug 20, 2025)
- APPELLANT’S BRIEFING NOTICE (Aug 19, 2025)
- ORDER OF COURT (Aug 19, 2025)
- REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL (Aug 15, 2025)
- OPPOSITION TO MOTION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL (Aug 14, 2025)
- MOTION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL (Aug 11, 2025)
- NOTICE OF APPEAL (Aug 6, 2025)